“... Institute of Export and International Trade. The gentleman wanted to issue ‘a clarion call, if I may’. International trade is a force for good, humanity needs it to solve its ‘issues’. MENA is young, and so the economic potential is ‘vast’.My Monday morning had begun outside the ACC campus, with the young woman who was leafleting for the Palestine ...”

“... that ‘evil intent’ should be strictly irrelevant to the definition and punishment of crime may have gained a hold in criminological circles, but there are few signs of its acceptance among the people at large (and its creeping penetration into sentencing procedures may well have helped to deepen widespread popular ...”

“... a putative Michelangelo sketch on which opinion is still divided. The key moment of opportunity may come when a neglected artist becomes suddenly fashionable, so that demand is high but scholarship still limited. Whoever knocked up the jaunty ‘Breughel’ A Religious Procession took advantage of the rediscovery of his work in the 1920s. The caption ...”

“... and French country cooking, of a kind which in France is being replaced by pizzas and hamburgers, may be raptly savoured in rural England.The eponymous ‘Chez Panisse’ of the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook is directly inspired by Mrs David, who now spans the globe. The cook-proprietor of ‘Chez Panisse’, Alice Waters, says in her introduction: ‘I bought ...”

“... during his years as a critic. This pattern, of bursts of activity alternating with long hiatuses, may have been due in part to depression. During the winter of 1886-87, he found new compositional momentum with settings of Goethe and Eichendorff, and in 1888, inspired by his first critical publications, composed the 53 settings of Eduard Mörike that make up ...”

“... of contact with the dead without ever promising anything as fantastical as reanimation.Coffins may not confer immortality, but for Seuss they do mark a place to dig, a hinged form to swing open. Sonnets are hinged too. If one defining feature of the sonnet is its brevity, another is the dramatic turn that often occurs within its fourteen lines – in the ...”

“... the Anatolian coast. It was the site of a huge sanctuary of Asclepius, the god of medicine, which may also have been a medical school. Galen probably trained there. His father, Nicon, was an architect, who wrote several treatises on buildings and ensured his son was schooled in maths and philosophy. Galen’s first medical position in Pergamon was as ...”

“... alter interior space, and house and garden are connected across verandahs or through windows which may frame precise views. Not all Japanese gardens are meant to be entered; some are intended only to be viewed from a particular room, often from a seated or kneeling position.This habit of seeing only what you are meant to see and from the right angle is useful ...”

“... Sissy, Carmel, Dolores, Josephine – aren’t altogether saintly, but she engages with them; she may have withdrawn from society but she’s not a recluse. It helps that she’s familiar with the bleakly beautiful Monaro landscape, having grown up nearby. She visits her parents’ graves (‘My inability to get over my parents’ deaths has been a source of ...”

“... caused by having to spend a year in Japan (Susan Choi also lived there for a period as a child) may be a factor in her recalcitrance. As the daughter of a white American mother and an Asian father, she’s used to feeling different, but in Japan it’s a new sort of difference: she’s stared at as a gaijin, a foreigner. Over the months, as she masters the ...”

“... do likewise. From nine to eight, from eight to seven, from seven to six, from six to five …One may also be accused of having ‘written upon confessional wafers and given them to sick people to eat’. And when sorcery is in the air, even cats and swine speak.The source of words is feelings. Ravn immerses us in a world in which empirical reasoning and ...”

“... early in the Bush presidency by oil lobbyists and executives and issued from the White House in May 2001, appeared to provide an explicit set of justifications – predictions, even – for the shedding of blood for oil. It estimated that US oil consumption (in 2000, this was more than 1100 gallons of petrol per capita, over a quarter of global ...”

“... of being a spy or a commando, then transferred to a naval prison, where he remained until late May, when he was cleared after an investigation. A month later he boarded a ship to London with a group of eighty other French citizens. ‘The volunteer Grumbach produced a very good impression,’ his interrogator in London wrote, and issued him a Number One ...”

“... Instead her task is to recognise who the baby is for her or himself, even though what that may mean is something neither of them can know in advance. Perhaps it’s because this uncertainty is hard to tolerate that ‘His Majesty the Baby’ continues to wield such power. During the grand royal tour in April this year, we were given a daily dose, as ...”

“... all this with his one-stop dispossession of livelihood, civic status and homeland. By the end of May 1939, nearly 100,000 Jews had left Austria, most through his good offices.He was becoming expert at moving people around and learning at the same time how difficult it was to carry out policy when the higher-ups were at loggerheads. Heydrich appointed him ...”