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...But for some years now JR Central, the company that operates the existing shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka, has been looking to best itself with a ¥9tn ($60bn), 500km/h magnetically levitating train...
...The characters behind Evergrande’s liquidation If life had taken a slightly different turn, Eddie Middleton could have spent the past 25 years or so as a UK nightclub mogul....
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Thiele’s son, Bob Jr, a long-term Valentine collaborator, now heads the rebooted label which has co-produced this album....
...Richard H Lawrence Jr, chair of both the Asia-focused asset manager Overlook Investments Group and of the non-profit Carbon Mapper, hopes to see a climate equivalent to the gruelling qualification known...
...Alibaba shake-up: Incoming chief Eddie Wu will have to oversee the break-up of the Chinese tech empire he built with “close, trusted” mentor Jack Ma....
...(Practical Engineering) — Inside the hip-hop record store run by undercover cops (Vice) — Big coin (Riksbank) (H/T to everyone on the Alphaville.club Mastodon server who has shared links.)...
...She learnt to play the piano after her grandmother saved up enough S&H Green Stamps to buy her an instrument in the S&H store. “I have tons of hobbies,” Cox continues....
...In the event, from Gordon Richardson in 1978 onwards — so Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Eddie George, and Mervyn King — each was reappointed for another five years....
...The facts appear to be that the driver charged with driving a vehicle built to run at 320km/h and to the strictest of schedules made a mistake....
...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...“When more investors are holding Chinese assets, they need hedging,” said Eddie Yue, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at a recent Financial Times event....
...The Borscht Belt, as it was once known thanks to hotels catering to Jewish vacationers from roughly the 1920s to the 1970s, hasn’t been this hot since Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor hung out there....
...Hearn Jr, long teased as Silver Spoon by his dad, is now arguably the world’s most powerful boxing promoter, occupying a role once held by Don King....
...Eddie Hearn, the British boxing promoter who is taking over his father Barry’s business, has said of Succession: “It’s just like us!”...
...But the global managing partner of H & S’s financial services practice, Jenni Hibbert, says this “retrenchment” will be temporary....
...Twenty years later, the volumes stretch from A-H and would pack out a large suitcase....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...He reckons attitudes, at least within rugby, are changing fast and points to the example set by England head coach Eddie Jones, an Australian with Japanese heritage: “Eddie has always [said] we need diversity...
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: Eddie Hearn The Hearns are sport’s turnround specialists. Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for “jobs and freedom”....
...Hugs are shared between gentle charmer Otis (Clarke Peters), prosperous Eddie (Norm Lewis), practical-minded Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr) — and the raging, self-loathing Paul (Delroy Lindo)....
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
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