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...Over his two-decade career, photographer Alexi Lubomirski has hung out in Bruce Springsteen’s dressing room, played cards with Brad Pitt and convinced Gwyneth Paltrow to perch on the end of a supermarket...
...Online, I browse an Araks Harper bralette (£125) with “pin-thin straps”, a sack of bath salts for £36, a set of 20 beeswax candles (£68) and a copper watering can for £133....
...As such it complements Brad Stone’s Amazon Unbound, published earlier this year, in illustrating how the law and, in some cases, popularly accepted economic doctrine has failed to keep pace with the tech...
...“Brad’s book is essential to understanding the company’s pursuit of dominance, sometimes at a high societal cost.”...
...The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World, by Brad Stone, Bantam Press, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$30 This dissection of the rise of Airbnb...
...He’s been called the Proust of Norway, but with his abundant mane, leather jackets and rumpled linen blazers, he’s also a bit of a Scandi Brad Pitt with a dash of heyday Bon Jovi....
...AUGUST … Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 A Tel Aviv-set novel from the author of The History of Love (2005)....
...The budget pledged total infrastructure spending of C$120bn over 10 years but half of it was money committed by the previous Conservative government of Stephen Harper....
...In the 11 years of the Financial Times award, which is backed by McKinsey, only one book on technology had won before, The Everything Store, Brad Stone’s account of the rise of Amazon, which took the prize...
...Politicians who intervened last time – the premier of Saskatchewan Brad Wall, and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper – remain in office....
...The WSJ adds that Canadian premier Stephen Harper said he would consider Walls’ concerns in the government’s review of BHP’s bid....
...Stephen Harper, prime minister, is torn between his government’s professed support for liberalised trade and investment, and a groundswell of political opposition led by Saskatchewan’s premier, Brad Wall...
...Stephen Harper, prime minister, said earlier that “the criteria will be clear and the decision will be taken in the best long-run interest of the Canadian economy”....
...“In the past decade, promises about maintaining jobs, corporate headquarters and future investment have all been broken”, Brad Wall, Saskatchewan’s premier, said on Thursday....
...The example he set, of moving between magazine and art photography, was later followed by others including Irving Penn, who worked for Vogue, and Diane Arbus, who worked for Harper’s Bazaar....
...In Morocco, Cate Blanchett is the American tourist struck by a Berber boy’s accidental bullet and tended by desperate husband Brad Pitt in the one-mule local village....
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