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...Salman Rushdie is a tale-teller par excellence, and inexhaustibly inquisitive about the power of such tales to shape empires, countries and societies....
...Until this strategy can be proven, however, one group has already won: Numis’s convenient Long Term Incentive Plan has set up co-chiefs Alex Ham and Ross Mitchinson among other employees for a huge windfall...
...Alex Mashinsky used to like to tell people that “banks are not your friends”....
...But there was uproar in the House of Commons, where a young Alex Salmond, soon to become Scottish National Party leader, was expelled from the chamber....
...All night long, the guests – who included photographer Juergen Teller, artist Alex Israel, Natalia Vodianova, Alexa Chung, Carine Roitfeld and Naomi Campbell – table-hopped and posed for pictures with the...
...Alex Azar, the health secretary, promised on Friday that the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech would start being shipped early next week, with the drugs regulator poised to authorise it within days....
...The intergenerational make-up of the group is itself unusual: joining founders Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney (both 40) are Faith Fahy (13) and Lee Carter (60)....
...Downstairs, Juergen Teller’s blown-up image of Cerith Wyn Evans (“Cerith, Suffolk”, 2011) comatose under a bouquet of balloons, bestows on its fellows — an installation of whoopee cushions by Dan Colen,...
...One of the quirks of this year’s festival was the pop-up performances of Alex Hawkins’s “Enviroment Music”, scored for trumpets and strings....
...But on stage all was bonhomie — apart from Sparks’ Ron Mael, a stern-looking man with a pencil moustache and glasses who played his keyboards with the joie de vivre of a bank teller....
...The teller of this one, Daniel Allcock, manager of Shumba Camp, our first stop after Busanga, survived his encounter with the elephant and his ribs have healed (none of his guests come to any such harm)....
...ART Cézanne: A Life, by Alex Danchev, Profile, RRP£30 The most engrossing biography of an artist that I have read for years....
...And when I go to the bank, the teller addresses me as Cleveland, not Mr Evans. Again, 30 years ago, that would have been considered highly disrespectful....
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