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...Biden has also continued to give billions in military aid with only minimal conditions attached to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dictatorial regime in Egypt....
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...Lennox Thomas was one of the top students in his middle school in Brooklyn....
...The young socialist AL Rowse admired his “extraordinary catholicism of sympathy”. Buchan, he wrote, “gave himself away, right and left, with no thought for his own strength.”...
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Premier Oil, the UK independent explorer and producer, said it had sold its Pakistan business to Al-Haj Energy — a Pakistani conglomerate — for $65.6m in cash....
...Read the full piece by the FT's Thomas Hale here....
...The PIF has around $230bn in assets under management, its chief Yasir al-Rumayyan told Bloomberg TV....
...Equally compelling is the story of Thomas Dallam, who in 1599 travelled to Constantinople with a clockwork organ sent as a gift from Elizabeth I to the Sultan....
...He once told his librarian Thomas James that “Happely some plays may be worthy of the keeping but hardly one in fortie.”...
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...Architecture at the V&A: New twists to an Edwardian cabinet of curiosities The V&A’s £41m courtyard design by Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A) is a new phase in the museum’s decade-long remodelling, writes...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Cape £18.99, 369 pages FT Bookshop price: £15.19 Notorious for producing vast books at enigmatically long intervals, Thomas Pynchon is having a late-career burst...
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Cape, £18.99 A more approachable offering than earlier doorstoppers such as V and Gravity’s Rainbow, this Californian yarn featuring pot-smoking private eye Larry...
...Thomas Friedman describes Obama’s victory as the end of the American Civil War....
...Part V Helen Thomas is blogging from the Treasury Select Committee hearing at Westminster on Wednesday, where the vexed issue of private equity is firmly on the British political agenda....
...Get the film of Henry V right, and you scoop the 1996 Oscars. Establish the “authoritative” text, and all those education dollars are yours....
...Critics point to Bush v. Gore, the ruling in December 2000, which resolved the disputed election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in favour of President Bush....
...In answering this question, it will not do to say, as the Supreme Court said in the well known decision in Feist Publications v....
...Author and journalist Thomas Frank’s bleak but delightful book about the conservative takeover in his home state - “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”...
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