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...Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns Allen Lane £25, 336 pages As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani Princeton $35/£30, 440 pages Enough: Why...
...‘No regrets’: Lottomatica’s bet on growth Apollo rolled the dice on Wednesday when it listed its gambling group Lottomatica in Milan....
...A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, by Nathan Thrall, Allen Lane £25/ Metropolitan Books $29.99, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...(Laughter) Ethan Wu Who is Lily Allen? Katie Martin OK. She’s a Brit. Robert Armstrong That explains why no one knows who she is....
...Depending on how we slice and dice current capacities, and whether we add overlooked faculties such as our sense of balance, there may be more than 50 senses in total, rather than just the big five....
...That’s the luck of the dice....
...Allen will continue as chairman. Kirkbi, the fund that runs the wealth of the family behind Lego, has tapped Malou Aamund to join its board, according to Bloomberg....
...Even when it is logical to presume on shared interests, as in the UK’s stance on Brexit as it unties from Europe in favour of a chance to throw the dice for bilateral trade agreements, all signs point in...
...Cut the potatoes into 1cm dice (ie roughly the size of a mussel) and add, along with the thyme. Turn the potatoes in the mix before adding the milk....
...Taken together, these controversies constituted “a clear attempt to rig the referendum or, at a bare minimum, to load the dice”, Mr Banks said....
...The growing perception among Eurosceptics that the dice are being loaded against them will make Mr Cameron’s task of putting his party back together again after the vote much harder, some Tories believe....
...Our law and policy blogger David Allen Green has been looking at the implications, while Gawker may be looking for a sale as it faces having to pay a $140m damages bill....
...The Rising, he writes, “represented a last throw of the dice: in a phrase used at the time, ‘the last fight’ before the extinction of Irish nationality”....
...When I was told to prepare the dish at Joe Allen, I groaned but was rather shocked by the instructions that I was given....
...Ferrari has not yet raised the white flag, but the night race around the Marina Bay Street Circuit will be Ferrari’s last throw of the dice....
...A six-project John Zorn marathon was the night’s main event, and the blood-curdling cry was the American composer and saxophonist’s first roll of the dice....
...$29.95, 408 pages Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience, by Stein Ringen, Yale, RRP£20/$35, 264 pages The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy, by Philip Coggan, Allen...
...Michelle Breedt’s Lisa makes a riveting pivot, the work of a true singing actor; Giselle Allen’s Marta wrenches the heart....
...Could human activity have loaded the dice in favour or against the occurrence of a particular flood or heatwave, for example?...
...And so many stars have walked the red carpet that Hollywood must be depopulated: Woody Allen, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz; and of course Brangelina....
...April Dembosky is the FT’s San Francisco correspondent ‘The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age’ is published by Allen Lane on October 27, £14.99....
...In the end I did a figure of a gambler, a skull throwing a dice.” It went down a treat....
...The move is another throw of the dice by Guy Hands, founder and chairman of Terra Firma, which bought EMI for £4.2bn three years ago....
...My companions are still to go to bed and I can hear the murmur of their conversation along with the regular roll of dice and the clink of ice in a tumbler....
...It may also represent the last throw of the dice for one of the UK’s biggest private equity groups....
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