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...With immense labour, Crawford has tracked the detailed content of the courses young Eliot took, along with his grades (“C” for Greek Composition, “B+” for Chaucer, etc) and the gradual emergence of the best-educated...
...She had answered, “Why not add a little R’n’B and hip-hop. Innit.” Oh! Open mind, Captain Mainwaring, I self-commanded. Could this work?...
...Arriving early at B&G Oysters, a preppy restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay, I turn to the glossary of Junot Díaz’s first book Drown....
...Norwegian by Night , by Derek B Miller, Faber, RRP£12.99 Bostonian writer Derek B Miller’s discursive but richly written Norwegian by Night‘s Jewish-American anti-hero is the 82-year-old Sheldon, fearing...
...The news came just two months after the departure of John Lovering, M&B’s chairman....
...The author of this little volume was at the time named only as “B. E. Gent”....
...Kingfisher eased 1.6 per cent to 239p as analysts trimmed their estimates following news in the previous session of falling sales at B&Q. JPMorgan reduced its price target from 255p to 245p....
...Amlin held talks to buy rival Chaucer earlier this year. There was heavy trading of shares in Chaucer after Brit Insurance sold the last of its holding....
...Royal Dutch Shell’s most watched B shares declined 2.3 per cent to £18.40, BG Group fell 2.6 per cent to 494¼p while shares in BP fell 2 per cent to 624p....
...The end of merger talks also hit Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer, down 6.3 per cent to 59¼p....
...Hens are, as Chaucer put it, “friend and fowl”....
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