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...Looking ahead to next year, Walter Baethgen, a scientist at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, said years of strong Pacific Ocean warming such as that the world...
...In this way, Isaacson’s work lacks the economic gravitas of other technology enthusiasts, like author and Wired columnist Steven Levy, who wrote the definitive Google origin story, In The Plex....
...Such determination impressed younger directors, including Steven Spielberg. Mirisch “knew a good story when he found one, and fought tooth and nail to get it on the screen”, Spielberg said....
...They join gallery stalwarts, including Ugo Rondinone, Franz West and Steven Shearer, in a show of about 80 works by about 26 artists (November 11 to February 24)....
...He had the buzz cut and button-down look of an astronaut, though he was one of Walter Gropius’s students at Harvard and so an American descendant of the Bauhaus....
...I’ve also got a Landseer of Sir Walter Scott, which is a very big picture. It’s worth more than all the others put together. I couldn’t do without my dogs....
...Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens are high-profile sidemen with bands of their own....
...Walter Segal Self-Build Housing Walters Way, Honor Oak Park, SE23 3LH In the 1970s of communes and The Good Life, one potential solution to the housing crisis was for people to build their own homes....
...“Everything started because of Walter Stauffer, an Italian philanthropist who left a fortune to the city of Cremona in the 1970s,” says Paolo Petrocelli, the centre’s director-general....
...On Monday she talked on the phone with Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary, and the pair would speak again on Tuesday, her office said....
...The sale of the New York Mets franchise has sparked a bidding war from an A-list crowd that spans Hollywood superstar Jennifer Lopez and hedge fund kingpin Steven Cohen....
...Even in the 1860s, Walter Bagehot was already sceptical about how far a supposedly sovereign parliament could really operate as an effective brake on governments....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Walter Schmidt, head of mortgage strategies at FTN Financial, pointed out that the FHFA’s action did not help the servicers of mortgages not backed by the agencies....
...When Walter Bagehot, the Victorian economist, wanted to explain how central banks should act as lenders of last resort, he quoted a director of the Bank of England....
...Spielberg; Lucas; David Lynch; Robert Redford; Barbra Streisand (whose A Star Is Born revolutionised the power and immediacy of sound in screen musicals); and Uncle Walter Murch and all....
...The owners of the New York Mets are in talks to sell up to 80 per cent of the baseball club to hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, valuing the team at $2.6bn, said people familiar with the matter....
...and his family “use food as a form of social control, to reward political supporters and punish opponents, all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes”, Steven...
...“Any man today can lay claim to being filmed,” wrote the German philosopher Walter Benjamin in his 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”....
...MightyHive’s early backers include Steven Tamm, the senior software engineer at Salesforce, the cloud computing group. MightyHive declined to comment. Sir Martin also declined to comment....
...As the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker notes, “news” often focuses on events (today’s bridge collapse or a politician’s lie) at the expense of cheerier trends (such as the long-term rise in life expectancy...
...White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters is leaving the Trump administration in April to join Edelman Public Relations....
...As she makes her way through Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple founder, her employees play at guessing which chapter she has just read based on the mumbo jumbo she spouts....
...But Walter Mazzoni, another pensioner, had backed the PD. “Matteo Renzi is the only serious politician we have....
...Elif Shafak, novelist How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Viking, RRP$26.99/Crown, RRP$26) was one of my favourite reads this year....
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