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...Joyce Carol Oates’ Zero-Sum (Fourth Estate, 9 hrs 45 mins), presented by an array of highly proficient readers, offers tense narratives, variously filled with tales of seduction, revenge and — in the collection...
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...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....
...There are hugely enjoyable performances too from Ruthie Henshall as Dorothy Brock, the embittered star-on-the-slide, and from Josefina Gabrielle as savvy, straight-talking writer-producer Maggie Jones....
...In 1954 he took the lead, opposite Dorothy Dandridge, in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Bizet’s opera with an all-black cast....
...So where are today’s Dorothy Sayers wasting their talent?...
...Dorothy Gladys Underwood. Both born in 1920....
...McDonald’s was among companies including Kimberly-Clark, the Kleenex tissue maker, which said they were passing on the increased costs to customers by raising prices....
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...says their best-selling Department 56 products are part of a range that depict characters from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, one film in a 1980s series starring actor Chevy Chase as the hapless Clark...
...Pilita Clark, the FT’s business commentator, thinks not....
...The chains affected include Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Evans and Burton....
...Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark...
...Dorothy Thompson, former Drax boss, steps in as temporary executive chair until a permanent new CEO can be found....
...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...
...This time, as they battle to save their Arcadia group, owner of Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, Tina’s been splurging again. This time, though, she’s channelled her spending for a good cause....
...Quick hits Other FT stories that have caught my eye this week Pilita Clark gives a sceptical view on a study that claims being funny is no joke for women in business. (NB Pilita is very funny.)...
...Sir, Further to Pilita Clark’s column on music in the office (March 5): when I was a young accountant in the 1960s, working in clients’ offices in Michigan, we were invariably regaled with carols for at...
...“All our clients are reviewing their plans for this,” said Carol Lynch, partner with accounting firm BDO in Dublin....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark Letters in response to this column: Office Christmas carols began in November / From James Macdonald, Ickleton, Cambs, UK Trendy Egg’s irritating music was...
...“The market today is extremely liquid in terms of funding for the power sector and for well-structured projects but nuclear has a different risk profile,” said Carol Gould, managing director at MUFG Bank...
...Like a 15-rated update of Larry Clark’s notorious indie hit Kids, it stars Sunny Suljic as a young teen who is embraced by a gang of skaters....
...Dorothy Thompson, Drax chief executive, said on Wednesday her team was looking at whether it could convert at least one unit to natural gas rather than wood, a step she said would be possible only if the...
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
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