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...J’Nai Bridges looked set to become a professional basketball player when a relatively minor falling-out with her coach led her to change course completely and pursue her other big interest....
...When Jeremy King launches a restaurant, he works through his fears by drafting a fake review of the restaurant in advance. Not just any review....
...They packed her off to a gig in the local hall with her brother, friends piled two to a seat in his car....
...Running south from Asia Minor through Aleppo and Damascus, along the east side of the river Jordan, through Amman and Madaba and Karak to the legendary city of Petra and beyond to the Red Sea, it has been...
...To win, you have to swim as fast as you can through a 60-yard trench cut into a local bog....
...There are drawings by Adrian’s father, the modernist architect Trevor Dannatt, who worked on the Royal Festival Hall; works by his uncle, the property surveyor-turned-abstract artist and music critic George...
...“Gentlemen,” a voice booms over the loudspeakers, “please welcome the next president and first lady of the United States of America, president Donald J Trump, accompanied by Mrs Melania Trump.”...
...And as long as you get it from a good store and preferably with a personal recommendation from the person behind it or a recommendation from a reliable wine writer such as myself (Lilah laughs), and then...
...And third, through works by contemporaries and descendants, Donatello’s extremely broad influence shines....
...Two fingers to the teacher who once compared me in front of the whole class to a barrel, or the rangy mother of a school friend who told me next to their George III rocking horse, “Talking to you, no one...
...“We did the town hall and left,” he says. “And the next day we closed the company.” It was a huge undertaking....
...But in Egypt she had increasingly felt she should be trying to make a difference at home, and her friends there agreed....
...In the past, I would occasionally try to get my hands on those produced by Fern Verrow, a biodynamic farm in Herefordshire, and I yearned for the beauties grown by our friend Charlie McCormick in his Dorset...
...a 1992 stage production in which he performed his own birth with his mother, Bessie, on stage and with Bowery as midwife). In more recent performances, Clark has appeared on stage only fleetingly....
...He was still a minor in July 1995 when more than 40,000 women, children and elderly people were expelled from the town and he was captured by Serb forces....
...Andrew Simms: The next year could be a year of “levelling up” but only if the government follows through on many of it promises and pledges....
...“Some with multiple sites and good friends. It’s heartbreaking.” The picture has been just as gloomy elsewhere....
...One is shown in a print by John Gould, a 19th-century ornithologist and bird artist. The other is ceramic, and sits next to the picture on a windowsill....
...the school hall....
...He ate his daily $3 sausage-and-egg sandwich at a diner a few blocks away, before hopping on to the beat-up two-wheeler that would serve as his limousine until the next time somebody stole it....
...Through Trump, evangelicals finally won the prize: they now have an iron hold on the Supreme Court (likely for the next 40 years) and Roe’s protections for abortion rights will be eroded step by step....
...Do they live in a council property, supported by housing benefit? Do their children go to a state school? Isn’t their mother being cared for in hospital by non-Muslims? “So who is ‘them’?”...
...“She’s a pin-up girl from the 1950s but in the round,” he says. He found the piece in a bric-a-brac shop in Salonika owned by a friend....
...It was built to impress and intimidate by Francis I, a king whose mother called him “César”, and who was working out his standing not just in relation to his fellow rulers — the Holy Roman emperor Charles...
...He would spend the next 43 years and 10 months in a 6ft by 9ft cell, much of it with no human contact. He and two other Panthers — Robert King and Herman Wallace — became known as the Angola 3....
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