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...Affluent areas continued to outperform the rest of the country, providing circumstantial evidence that less well-off students had suffered greater learning loss in the pandemic, according to David Robinson...
...In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Anne Bancroft played Mrs Robinson, the older married woman having an affair with 21-year-old Benjamin, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft was just 35, Hoffman, 29....
...When you were growing up, through kindergarten, through high school, you were “Black Amy”....
...Working alongside Amy de la Haye of the London College of Fashion and Mellany Robinson of the Museum of British Folklore, Costin has finally got his wish — or nearly — with an exhibition at Compton Verney...
...Sculpted by Amy Mae’s eloquent lighting, Annabelle Comyn’s mesmerising staging (presented in partnership with Dublin’s Abbey Theatre) draws you into a claustrophobic household seething with desire, damage...
...To say Amy Poehler’s Moxie would be best enjoyed by 14-year-olds is no insult....
...Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts, Vancouver Polymath 1,016: Amy...
...Lionel Barber’s choices My two picks are both from 2012: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, writes Lionel Barber....
...Writers such as Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout and Bloom are capturing the public’s attention both in America and beyond with tender, wise, deeply humane novels that are far removed from the grandstanding...
...Even so, Robinson Meyer argued in the Atlantic that the significance of the idea was that “America cares about climate change again”....
...Amy Myers Jaffe wrote about Venezuela for the Council on Foreign Relations, pointing out that as the political uncertainty in the country continues, the state of its oil industry is still deteriorating,...
...Amy Harder of Axios spotted that ExxonMobil is looking at possibly investing in charging stations for electric vehicles, according to a report from David Koranyi of the Atlantic Council....
...The painting was taken by the Nazis from Bouchard’s home in Le Plessis-Robinson, south of Paris, in about 1940 and hasn’t been seen since....
...Other 2018 titles on the subject include Hearts and Minds by Jane Robinson (Doubleday, January) and Rachel Holmes’s life of Sylvia Pankhurst (Bloomsbury, September)....
Top stories for the coming week
.../ I thought I was the asshole, I guess it’s rubbing off,” rapped Kanye on “Devil in a New Dress” against a slickly seductive Smokey Robinson sample from 1973. What was Smokey singing?...
...There is even a record of a lunch with the ageing Hardy Amies. As I too can testify, he had as skilled an eye for a garden’s design as for the design of a royal evening dress....
...… Janet Robinson, non-profit human resources consultant As a junior HR professional, I had a big presentation to make to the five most senior executives of the big NYC bank where I worked....
...attempts to lift its spirits with United offer For years Diageo has sought to gain control of United Spirits, which dominates India’s large and rapidly growing liquor market with a 45 per cent share, writes Amy...
...Additional reporting by Gwen Robinson in Bangkok...
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...Wine online For picks under £10 see www.ft.com/robinson More tasting notes on Purple pages of JancisRobinson.com...
...Colin Salmon, 50, is best known for playing Charles Robinson in three James Bond films, and James “One” Shade in Resident Evil (2002), and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)....
...It’s hardly a new subject of course – Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 – but in the context of the “always-on” digital world, it feels more relevant than ever....
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