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Shchit Happens ..., THE MOSCOW TIMES
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Yulia Latynina
The Moscow Times (Russia)
10-01-2003
The main character of Viktor Pelevin's new book "Numbers," after
swapping his Chechen krysha for an FSB one, has billboard posters put up
on Rublyovskoye Shosse depicting a shield and a sword (the emblem of the
FSB) with the bilingual caption: "Shchit happens" (a pun on the fact that
the Russian word for a shield sounds like the word "shit").
Real-life oligarchs are smarter than their fictional counterparts.
They don't hang around until it's too late. And so that shit doesn't happen
to them, they bail out to the West, having swapped RusAl and ...
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Borne along on a tide of artistic recollection ; The Penwith Gallery in Back Road West, St Ives, is for me a river of recollection. The potter Bernard Leach's wide range of work; Dame Barbara Hepworth's sculptures that lit your imagination; hearing Sir Herbert Read speak to a packed gallery; meeting Bryan Pearce and his mother Mary.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...potter Bernard Leach's wide range of work; Dame Barbara Hepworth's sculptures that lit your imagination; hearing Sir Herbert Read speak to a packed gallery; meeting Bryan Pearce and his mother Mary. Something of that golden era hangs in the air...
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Local hero It was sad to read Sir Wally Herbert has died. Ironic that the brave man who defied death so many times on his Polar explorations should be taken at the comparatively young age of 72.
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
; It was sad to read Sir Wally Herbert has died. Ironic that the brave man who defied death so many times on his Polar explorations should be taken at the comparatively...
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Sir Wally Herbert had mapped 73,000 square kilometres of previously unexplored land before he was 30. In 1969, he led the team that made the first undisputed attainment of the North Pole on foot and continued to Svalbard, becoming the first to cross the entire Arctic Ocean. Christian Amodeo joins him on his 70th birthday to learn more about his many achievements.(In Conversation)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; Sir Ranulph Fiennes has called you "the greatest polar explorer of our time...appointments page and two advertisements caught my eye almost simultaneously. One read "Surveyors required in Kenya", and the other, "Expedition to Antarctica...
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Herbert's "The Pearl" and the Commentary by Franciscus Lucas Brugensis.(George Herbert)
Magazine article from: George Herbert Journal
; ...these difficulties, Herbert's scholarly Latin sources...us with a reading of Herbert's "The Pearl." But...on the Scriptures. He read more books on religious...the criticism of George Herbert's poetry, and the...to his step-father, Sir John Danvers, that Herbert...
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Obituary: Margaret Read
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...agnostic, poet and critic Sir Herbert Read, one might think that...monastery years later when Herbert Read, a born Yorkshireman...piece with knobs - which Sir Herbert called names and...March 1905; married 1936 Herbert Read (Kt 1953, died 1968...
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Diaries `meant to be read'.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...Jenkins meant his diaries to be read. ``He was writing for us. When you read his diaries, it's an intimate...hopes people yet unborn will read his journal and see how they...the brilliant biography of Sir Herbert Lloyd the infamous 18th Century...
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"Yet I love thee": The "wayes of Learning" and "groveling wit" in Herbert's "The Pearl".
Magazine article from: George Herbert Journal
; ...coeur is that George Herbert was heir to an Augustinian...Augustine and Calvin, Herbert was classically trained and deeply read, so it would seem...some interpreters, Herbert, like his spiritual...close association with Sir Francis Bacon, and...
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Statement by Sir Philip Watts on FSA Investigation into Shell.
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing
; ...Next Page' link at the bottom of this article to read Philip Watts' Letter to FSA 16 September 2004 I have...should be sought about your specific circumstances. Sir Philip Watts Herbert Smith Exchange House Primrose Street London EC2A 2HS...
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Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History
; ...Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature...century writers George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Sir Thomas Browne and John...are the best reason to read Ceremony and Community...ceremony that suffuses Herbert's The Temple, rather...
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'Jim Clark was the epitome of excellence in a car' Sir Jackie Stewart tells James Mossop how mind games make the difference for winners
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...British motor-racing legends, Sir Jackie Stewart endures. Walk...Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Johnny Herbert, Damon Hill, David Coulthard and Sir Stirling Moss whose home win...driver can you think of who has read the yellow book [a formidable...
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