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...Investors “recognise there’s been significant reforms in the investment climate”, said Douglas Ramage, managing director at consultancy Bower Group Asia in Jakarta....
...Bonnie Casson-Deweese anticipated last week’s clampdown by the US Supreme Court on affirmative action in college admissions....
...But a friendly A&R man at his record company in London persuaded a local radio DJ to give it a spin. “It just blew up in England,” says Hornsby....
...She is one of three Syrian women whose stories of entrepreneurship form the narrative of this book by Andrew Leon Hanna, an Egyptian-American lawyer, entrepreneur and author who won the FT’s Bracken Bower...
...They talk about the bonds forged over door-to-door calls to raise funds for materials to construct “the bonnie” and sleeping next to it overnight to defend it....
...But there isn’t any substantial impact other than the US navy losing a great place for R & R.”...
...Sarion Bowers, a policy expert from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, welcomed any changes to the immigration system that made it easier to bring talented scientists into the UK, but said that the chancellor...
...The Importance of Small Decisions, by Michael J O’Brien, R Alexander Bentley, and William A Brock This trio of professors of, respectively, history, anthropology and economics, devised a “map” of social...
...Mood and vocal cadence are heavily exaggerated, and the accent given to Korean-Americans (the old R-for-L cliché is ubiquitous, with one figure’s repeated use of the world “slave” rendered consistently as...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Trump can delegate his tyrannies to others / From Julie R Keresztes, Hamburg, Germany...
...Harrison was a second world war navy veteran turned R&B journeyman. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, he had achieved a US number one in 1959 with “Kansas City”....
...“Some of the parts they make are pretty phenomenal — what you see on these cars, you will not find anywhere else — so it’s an R&D investment....
...More significant, internationally, is so-called “urban music”, the umbrella term for hip-hop, R&B and rap....
...“Retail is tough and it’s hard to make money,” Mary Bowers, portfolio manager with HSBC Global Asset Management, says. “In some of the more recent LBOs, the leverage was too high.”...
...Read extracts from this year’s Bracken Bower Prize finalists....
...After Mr R died eight years later, Mrs R wanted to move to a smaller flat. This would mean paying off the lifetime mortgage....
...The David Foster Wallace Reader, edited by Pietsch along with Wallace’s widow Karen Green and his agent Bonnie Nadell, contains few new surprises....
...Not that there was any shortage of unreconstructed R&B, as exemplified by Lalah Hathaway’s early evening set....
...Sweet Revenge, Tom Bower’s insightful biography, narrates his string of failures in the business before the revolution of Pop Idol....
...To illustrate America’s impact on his identity, Noble quotes Burns: “Oh wad some pow’r the giftie gie us, to see oursels as others see us.”...
...Since Czech writer Josef Capek coined the word “robot” in his 1921 science fiction play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots), cinema has been fascinated by the autonomous powers of our friends electric....
...Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School and the author of ‘From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business and the...
...Male bowerbirds build bowers to attract females, and their ability to do so is not innate....
...The whole set-up has a cheeky swagger about it that befits a tale of buccaneers, and the open-air theatre, with the seagulls wheeling and crying above, is perfect for R.L....
...My favourite is Admiral’s, a malignant half-hidden doom pit on the 12th – so named because of the naval officer who fell into it while gawping at a bonnie lass walking along the shore....
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