4.33pm Five games, four goals. Best league in the world! «Vela’s wearing luminous lime green boots,» notes David Hytner. «I suppose somebody has to now that Nicklas Bendtner appears to be back to less garish colours.» I wonder whether that was Bendtner’s decision, or whether Arsene Wenger gently pointed out that he looked like a complete tool.
It was such a chance meeting, says Isla. «The window of opportunity in which we met was really a few seconds. If the light had been green, we probably wouldn’t be here.» Valente must be pleased to have decided to catch up with her once she sped off, I say. He smiles and says: «On her birthday, I gave her a new bicycle.»
Cruz was referring to the death toll from Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017. An official report criticized the Trump administration’s slow response to the devastation from the storm, which destroyed the island’s power grid and decimated its agriculture and tourism industries.
«One day, a guy we didn’t know too well came into the office,» he remembers, «and there he was, really and truly getting on our nerves with his incredible nonchalance. Fernando decided to cut out four cardboard phalluses, and slowly and carefully he stuck them on the heels of the visitor’s shoes. This strange character finished his business with us and we laughed as he proceeded along Avenida Rio Branco, unable to figure out why everyone was staring at him and laughing at the unusual spurs he was wearing.»
4pm So, a pretty big 45 minutes for Arsenal here. I think they can still reel Villa in, mainly because Villa are going to tumble like a wino who’s just been cattle-prodded back to life and dragged into an upright position, but they can’t be dropping points in games like these.
4.09pm «Never mind Barry Davies’ superb commetary in that England Poland match, just look at all those Everton players (Stevens, Steven, Reid and Lineker)!» swoons Gary Naylor. «I may be wrong, but I don’t think they were all selected in the previous games, but results forced St Bobby’s hand.» Indeed so. Most of England’s half-decent World Cup campaigns — 86, 90, 98, 02 — have involved a significant team change after a game or two. It’s as if they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing!
Saavedra has since been granted US citizenship, but the words «undocumented and unafraid» continue to be the slogan of a larger group of young people who take their name from the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The act – which would create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young people – was first proposed to the US senate in 2001, but in November it became a key issue in the presidential elections.
Boro are one place off the bottom, and haven’t won a league game since November 9. A personal opinion is that they will do what they always do – finish between 11th and 14th – but time is running out and their next two games, at home to Liverpool and away to Tottenham, are probably unwinnable, even for a side as contrary as Boro. I think they might win today against a Wigan side who have scored only one league goal from open play in the last eleven-and-a-half hours.
In May last year, Isla Rae-Smith was cycling to the English school where she works in Mérida, in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. She stopped at a red light and Valente Saavedra pulled up next to her. «He had speakers on his bike,» says Isla. «I’d always wanted to listen to music on my bike, but I was too scared of wearing headphones when I was cycling on the roads. I said: ‘Good idea,’ in Spanish.»
This list of the 100 best books of all time was prepared by Norwegian Book Clubs. They asked 100 authors from 54 countries around the world to nominate the ten books which have had the most decisive impact on the cultural history of the world, and left a mark on the authors’ own thinking. Don Quixote was named as the top book in history but otherwise no ranking was provided
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The next night, Isla and her friends, including the one she had told about Valente, teclado mecanico tfue were at a bar. The friend spotted him. «I said: ‘Oh my God – it’s the boy on the bike,'» says Isla. «It was a strange coincidence. I was really excited. And I was a bit drunk as well.»
Saavedra and his friends raised money to set up a seed project, United We Dream. «I moved to Washington DC, travelling 20 days a month, organising. We trained thousands of people. In 2010 we pushed the US legislation all the way to the senate, but we lost by just five votes.»
The architect’s love of the female form was a well-known inspiration for the undulating concrete curves of his projects, which channelled his native Brazil’s sun, sea, skies and passion for life into built reality.