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...The bitter narrator deliberately refuses to make polite conversation, despite the other’s desperate attempts: “I’d never in my life had another woman want me to like her so much....
...Should a picnic not be for you, places to eat and drink on site include D/6, the Douglas’s elegant rooftop lounge that specialises in artisanal cocktails (try the in-house Douglas fir gin), and surf-and-turf...
...Well, I’d probably start out as a pilot, but a pilot from the 1950s – drinking whisky and smoking in the cockpit. So I’d probably get fired, and then I’d be an antiques dealer....
...Harry Winston’s Premier Kaleidoscope Automatic, with its bold colours, geometric shapes and trippy symmetry, is a diamond-accented take on the children’s toy....
...But had he sat on his hands and stared out of the window these past three years, I suspect he’d be polling better....
...As you’d expect, the FTC argued that the deal could lead to higher prices and poorer services for consumers....
...Who Douglas Elliman House, McLean, VA, $22mn Where In McLean, northern Virginia, about 10 miles from Washington, DC. The drive to the city takes about half an hour, depending on traffic....
...On my second day earwigging for Michael Gambon, I found myself lying under the bed in which the legend of stage and screen was portraying Winston Churchill....
...So they’d rather pay cash now and refinance later,” she said. The median sales price for a Manhattan apartment was $1.15mn in the fourth quarter, according to real estate agency Douglas Elliman....
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...I asked him how he’d felt afterwards. He grimaced. He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
...Baroness Anne Jenkin, chair of the Women2Win campaign that aims to get more female Tory MPs elected, said: “I’d encourage any women on the candidates list to put their names forward....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...Ideally, I’d love to see my rate at sub-5 per cent. It will take patience and maybe a little bit of gambling. But I’m holding out,” she says....
...The promise of good rental occupancy rates helped attract avid skier Winston Clarke, from Derbyshire, to buy a two-bedroom duplex in one of the new Savoyard-style buildings to take advantage of the VAT rebate...
...His name was made when wildlife documentary makers Malcolm Douglas and Steve Irwin, both soon friends, arrived to make films....
...Maximilian Büsser, founder of boutique Swiss brand MB&F, did something similar in 2001 when he set up the Opus project at Harry Winston Rare Timepieces (now known as Harry Winston)....
...US housebuilder Smith Douglas kicked off this year’s IPO efforts stateside this month; its shares are still about 15 per cent above the listing price....
...Georgie has mastered the art of trolling the system — recording voice messages to fool Social Services into thinking they are talking to her uncle, “Winston Churchill”....
...When I’d had enough for the day, I’d stop at a locally owned lodge, no reservation required and consequently no need for a heavy rucksack stuffed with food and camping equipment....
...In summer 2019, he even invited Putin to the Côte d’Azur to discuss building “a new architecture of security and confidence between Russia and the EU”....
...“They felt we’d given a fair representation of their relatives, given that they had polar opposite views,” he says. “We didn’t want to load the dice one way or the other.”...
...“I’d rather have a human, honest, genuine response to what is in effect a conversation.” But transparency is not always straightforward....
...He also feels reassured that Val d’Isère’s snowfall is reliable....
...In fact, I think I’d have been a better writer for the first television show I wrote for, Skins, if I’d shown slightly more interest in friends; if I’d gone out more, and worked out how people who aren’t...
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