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With interviews from Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Lucas, Albert Hammond Jr, Bernardette Peters, Andy Murray, David Shrigley, Sudan Archives, J Balvin, Anthea Hamilton – and more
...I arrive at the restaurant 15 minutes ahead of schedule to find my lunch companion, Michel Roux Jr (chef, author, TV star and head of arguably Britain’s most important culinary family) already here....
...By contrast, Albert Hammond Jr prefers the more meditative art of coffee making....
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...Guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi remain masters of the style, rattling out the brusque, catchy chords of “Meet Me in the Bathroom” and the spangling fretwork of “Soma” with equal aplomb....
...World leaders due to address the gathering of Pacific nations include Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and, waving the flag for Global Britain, UK premier Rishi...
...And last week Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent anti-vaccine activist, launched his bid to stand as a presidential candidate for the Democrats....
...Instead, since becoming chief executive in 2019, Albert Bourla, has sought to transform the company from a diversified pharmaceutical conglomerate into a nimbler, science-led business....
...Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla has likened this aspect of the reforms to “negotiating with a gun to your head”....
...Chasing a controversial innovator was not a novel task for Isaacson: he has already penned hefty, bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin...
...Blockbuster drugs developed by Eli Lilly, AbbVie, AstraZeneca and other Big Pharma groups are expected to be in the first wave of medicines facing negotiation in 2026, according to analysts....
...another great American, Albert Einstein....
...David Ricks, chief executive of Eli Lilly, warned: “These medicines are running out now.”...
...Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, has been adamant that the upper chamber of Congress will vote on changing its rules no later than Martin Luther King Jr Day on January 17 to pave the way for Democrats...
...When Donald Trump Jr texted: “He’s got to condemn this s*** Asap,” Meadows agreed....
...Sinema received several large donations from healthcare and pharmaceutical industry bosses in the third quarter, including Bristol-Myers Squibb chair and chief executive Giovanni Caforio, Eli Lilly chief...
...“I wanted to come here, Albert, to thank you and to thank all the workers here,” the US president told Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, in February....
...The celebration will also include soul grandee Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr) and American football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). “You mean no one else is coming?” Brown asks, nonplussed....
...Lower turnout among black voters in 2016 contributed to Mr Trump’s victory, said Lilly Goren, a political-science professor at Carroll University in Wisconsin....
...Albert Roux & Michel Roux Jr Albert and his brother, the late Michel Roux Sr, opened Le Gavroche in Mayfair in 1981. It went on to become the first UK restaurant with three Michelin stars....
...The return of places of “congregation and enjoyment . . . so important after this period of isolation and loss”, was heralded by Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...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)....
...Meanwhile, guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi, bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti resembled the interlocking parts of a machine....
...This year, the money goes to two institutions — London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
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