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...“If you see that the moon is affecting tides, gardening by the moon is saying that all water beneath the surface — and in ourselves — is swayed by it,” says Carol Connare, editor of the US-based annual publication...
...Oates was married to her first husband, Raymond J Smith, for 47 years. When Smith died in 2008, she wrote a memoir, a raw accounting of grief and its horrible novelties....
...Touchet, who served as his hostess during his separation from his wife, once owned an autographed copy of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which became the most expensive of Dickens’ books when it was sold at...
...Dates to be announced; further information here November Performance ‘A Christmas Carol’, Old Vic Matthew Warchus’ production of Dickens’ classic returns for a festive run....
...The Big Four firm has flown some of its top executives, including global general counsel Diana Weiss and global head of tax Carol Stubbings, to Sydney, according to a person close to the firm with knowledge...
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...A contemporary German Christmas carol set the seal as an encore. ★★★★☆ It was equally good to see St John’s, Smith Square, filled for the Tallis Scholars, one of the prime events in the venue’s 37th Christmas...
...But Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, all shared the same view....
...“This is a true writer,” wrote Patti Smith following Didion’s death in December 2021. “Farewell brave sister, master of pain and ink.”...
...Pete Smith, another pilot, retired in 2003 — the year I began to fly commercially — after decades of flying the 737 and the 747....
...He drank a toast to the Queen mid-afternoon, opened one of his 12 bottles of whisky and a jar of pickled onions he had stowed on board, before performing a solo carol service to the waves....
...There, I met my husband Ray Smith, and this accidental meeting totally altered my life. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...“Fall in Love at Christmas” (★★★☆☆) is a 1990s R&B/hip-hop throwback with piercing whistle singing, a carol-singing breakdown, a gospel choir and slinky co-vocals from singer Khalid....
...Data visualisation by Alan Smith...
...‘Invisible to Invaluable: Unleashing the Power of Midlife Women’, by Jane Evans and Carol Russell We seem to be in a “moment” in societal and publishing terms, with the concerns and potential of mid-life...
...And we essentially got the list down to Iain Duncan Smith, the former welfare secretary; maybe Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland secretary....
...His successor will be Carol Borg, currently chief financial officer of solar developer Lightsource BP....
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...Alex T Smith’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (Macmillan £9.99) is less reverential....
...Kiell Smith-Bynoe plays it straight as irritable Mike while the tenuous plot meanders its way towards Christmas harmony and intergenerational understanding....
...The second festival, says Smith, will be “bigger, better, bolder”....
...Judge Carol Amon ultimately granted the request on Wednesday, saying: “Although these are very serious charges against a very significant figure, and the adage ‘a bird in the hand’ comes to mind, I have...
...Richard Waters is the FT’s west coast editor Tools and Weapons: the Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Brown, Penguin Press, $30, 368 pp...
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...What else we’re reading Lunch with the FT: Carol Dweck Psychologist and Stanford professor Carol Dweck may not be a household name, but her research into what she came to call “growth mindset” and “fixed...
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