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...Burroughs could have been thinking of sovereign debt investors when he quipped that “sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.” The antics of the New York State legislature are a case in point....
...Outside voices of some prominent journalists — The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Barbarians at the Gate author Bryan Burrough, The Wall Street Journal’s Cara Lombardo and the FT’s Rana Foroohar — confirm...
...Tolkien: Ulric van den Bogaerde, who manages the academic department, remembers standing in the middle of the travel section and “suddenly being surrounded by Secret Service men”, before realising that Bill...
...The subsequent mayhem ranges over the rest of the 20th century and the house’s numerous inhabitants, who include a medium, a mermaid and, oddly enough, William Burroughs....
...This is a very special one as it’s the Vico bookcase.” patriciaurquiola.com Designer and leatherwork specialist Bill Amberg“When we moved into this house in Somerset 14 years ago, there was a very old cherry...
...People close to Teneo, which was founded by former associates of Bill and Hillary Clinton, said Chevron hired the company after it was dismissed by Occidental....
...City Lights became synonymous with the hell-raising iconoclasts of the Beat Generation including Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs, whose bright flames and catastrophic burnouts have fascinated...
...Abu Dhabi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have between them contributed $40m. There is the repackaging of existing support, including drug donations by pharmaceutical companies....
...So Burroughs Wellcome discovered AZT. We we then have 3TC. We've been on this journey as a company, Burroughs Wellcome Glaxo Wellcome, GlaxoSmithKline, and now ViiV....
...When I eventually pay my bill, I deliberately make my way past him, and he whispers . . . nothing....
...It is the world’s second-largest funder of medical research after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with an £18bn endowment....
...One Summer: America 1927, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday, RRP£20, 560 pages A classic Bill Bryson sentence flies like a curveball, never landing quite where you’d expect....
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...Prof Siegel’s work also contains a warning about the ephemeral nature of technology stocks; Burroughs, too, was considered to be worth 46 times earnings back then....
...He looks suddenly a little worried, so I pay the bill and we gather up our coats and walk into the January afternoon, and then almost immediately back inside, into the lobby next door....
...Now a Canadian citizen, before 1993 he had a spell in the information technology industry working for Burroughs, Nortel and Fairchild Semiconductor....
...There are a few studies that take a more upbeat view – 2005’s Gated Communities as Club Goods: Segregation or Social Cohesion by Bill Smith-Bowers and Tony Manzi, which extols the benefits of creating safe...
...In June 2007, at Christie’s in London, a Monet painting of Waterloo Bridge (£17.9m) topped the bill but an obscure Russian stormed up the hit parade to number five: Natalia Goncharova’s vibrant composition...
...This one is unbearable, unwearable, and based on the new-to-me memoirs of Augusten Burroughs....
...Burroughs, Lucien Carr - meeting at Columbia University, and the famous first reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7 1955, when Ginsberg was accompanied by Kerouac “who kept rhythm...
...Salinger, William Burroughs and Bret Easton Ellis (the last of whom she knows socially through her father). Jane Austen is judged “boring feminist crap” (feminist?)...
...Augusten Burroughs is a more self-consciously “literary” memoirist....
...Career: began his career working for Burroughs (now Unisys), then moved to Prime Computer, the former mini-computer company, holding positions in sales and sales management....
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