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The 85-year-old King Harald V of Norway takes part in the World Sailing Championship as skipper of the yacht Sira, with a crew of six. After a week's racing, the crew finished in tenth place. Harald V has a European Championship gold and five World Cup
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Paris paving on the rue du Temple sends envious greetings to Moscow's street improvements. Whenever I feel like complaining about some oversight of Sobyanin's, I remember that somewhere in the heart of Europe there is Anne Hidalgo, and, you know, all my discontent vanishes as if
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Tatler has published photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. On board this luxurious vessel Diana was spotted in the Mediterranean in 1997 with the
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Gertrude Stein. I wonder whether she meant that inwardly we are all the same age as one another? That would be a little odd. Or that inwardly each of us remains at one age, that is, an unchanging one? By the sense of it, the second seems more likely. Inside,
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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
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In all these years I could count on one hand the days when I failed to post in the Mockingbird. It is not merely a community of cultural history or some new medium: the Parnassian Mockingbird has become a self-sufficient intellectual phenomenon with a style, a character and a
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Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet