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...Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega) walks into a Wells Fargo bank in a suburb of Georgia....
...Rather, he said, it was turning a card over and learning about how a baseball player like Ted Williams had fought in two wars. Later, in the television age, biography gave way to personality....
...Additional reporting by William Langley in Hong Kong...
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate/Bloomsbury) In 1921, the writer William Somerset Maugham made the first of two trips to British Malaya, collecting ideas for short stories as he went....
...A shake-up on the board has brought in more experienced heads, in the shape of ex-chair of Twitter Bret Taylor and former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers....
...Adding extra poignancy to a story that becomes unexpectedly moving is the casting of the late Michael K Williams as hostage negotiator Eli, who tries to talk sense to Brown-Easley while knowing first-hand...
...FICTION JANUARY The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Swift Press/Knopf)The author of American Psycho blurs fact and fiction in his new novel about a serial killer set in early 1980s Los Angeles....
...Leif-Eric Easley, a North Korea expert at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, warned that while there might be a “brief pause” in provocations, Pyongyang would soon resume military action linked to deterring...
...The very prescient University of Massachusetts economist William Lazonick sums up the damage wrought by share buybacks over the past decade....
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams in Washington...
...Notable members Theodore Roosevelt (US president), Thomas Nast (satirist), William Cullen Bryant (poet and journalist)....
...Best of the rest The real lesson from the Toronto van attack isn’t about one hero cop — John Lorinc in the Washington Post Macron’s Democratic Vision — William Galston in the Wall Street Journal The ‘...
...Bret Sanner and J Stuart Bunderson, writing for the latest MIT Sloan Management Review, question the assumption that hierarchies are the enemy of new ideas....
...Bret Wells, a law professor at the University of Houston, said: “The maximum tax rate of 25 per cent for business income earned in pass-through entities is going to create significant complexity as taxpayers...
...Such plays shared a sensibility with Saatchi’s Young British Artists — brash, swaggering, sexual — as well as with American novelists such as Bret Easton Ellis....
...In an old discount store hugging a corner in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the heirs to the William Wrigley chewing gum fortune have an office for their family trust....
...A similar moment – “the frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork,” as William Burroughs called it in the introduction to Naked Lunch – came on a visit to London’s Imperial War Museum...
...Jacqueline Susann meets Bret Easton Ellis – kind of – in a Tinseltown fable written by Bruce Wagner. Wagner scripts with sly whimsy as if he was the fairy waggoner to the movie world....
...I suggest keeping an eye on the work of Bret Victor and Mike Bostock. Both are cutting edge....
...“The Treasury market likes to front run Japanese buying, but I think it is too early to expect that,” said Bret Barker, portfolio manager of government debt at TCW....
...” … This sort of description puts Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama brand porn to shame....
...Brandon, a compulsive masturbator, could easily be a Bret Easton Ellis anti-hero, but he is, as Morgan perhaps wanted, a romantic lead – damaged but reparable....
...William Leith is the author of ‘Bits of Me Are Falling Apart: Dark Thoughts from the Middle Years’ (Bloomsbury)...
...“We anticipate that the vast majority of output will go to China,” said Bret Clayton, head of Rio’s copper division, prior to a signing ceremony in Ulan Bator on Tuesday....
...William, Hong Kong Gavan Nolan: The outlook for the US sub-prime market appears bleak....
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