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...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...As historian Travis Elborough points out: “We are living in a knowledge economy, and glasses have always carried this idea of being brainy.”...
...Reports that former Travis Perkins executive Tony Buffin had been its first choice only add to that impression....
...The task of steering Pfizer, which has been hunting for a transformative deal for several years, now falls to Albert Bourla, its chief operating officer, who steps into the role at the start of next year...
...When he tentatively suggested payroll, she replied: “Not every position needs to be filled with Albert Einstein, but they need to be very good at what they do.”...
...The bandstands built by Captain Francis Fowke (who also designed the Royal Albert Hall) resemble “giant, landlocked, iron, wood and zinc jellyfish . . ....
...Travis Kalanick, the 39-year-old co-founder of the car-on-demand giant, has been in New York trying to seem less awful than his image. He’s doing well at it....
...Jon Moynihan: Royal Albert discord Tense times in Albertopolis. The Royal Albert Hall’s outgoing president, Peta Travis, has alerted members to a spat with her predecessor, The Hon Richard Lyttelton....
...The Clifford convictions come after a series of acquittals of high-profile defendants on sex-related charges, including Nigel Evans, deputy speaker of the House of Commons, and Dave Lee Travis, a former...
...Carnival, by Rawi Hage, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 / W.W Norton, RRP$25.95, 304 pages The work of the young Albert Camus was once described as Kafka written by Hemingway – a deft example of the shorthand...
...As it happens, that flash of green (by British costume designer Jacqueline Durran) is about to go on display in a new show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London entitled Hollywood Costume....
...Yet the musical rewards of Albert Herring, his only comedy, are modest....
...(It was also, curiously, the song that drove Travis Bickle to Mohican meltdown in Taxi Driver.) To lose love in an era that said that love was all we needed was traumatic....
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