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...Lewis, a forceful musical presence, needs the balance of drummer Chad Taylor’s hefty rimshot whacks and the off-kilter loose-skinned rolls that he delivers so powerfully....
...“This is an unthinkable tragedy,” said Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott....
...In the early 1970s, Barbara T Smith, along with 10 of her fellow graduate students at UC Irvine — including Chris Burden and Nancy Buchanan — founded F Space to create, as Smith says, “space for the artists...
...The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin) Plot twist: Zadie Smith’s latest is her first historical novel, an evocation of Victorian London that draws on the real-life court case of a fraudster...
...The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...Just south of Wisconsin’s state border in Illinois, Chicago voters chose the progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson to run the third largest city in the US....
...Jefferies Financial Group has hired Barclays’ Chad Parker as global head of transportation, based in New York, Bloomberg reports....
...Singer Brandon Flowers wore a red suit with gold buttons when he performed with Elton John at Glastonbury last month (though his look did draw comparisons with Alan Partridge)....
...Chicago votes for a new mayor: The race is between progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson and establishment favourite Paul Vallas....
...(Wales) Ranil Jayawardena (environment) Chloe Smith (work and pensions) Later, Sunak will return to 10 Downing Street to start appointing ministers to fill the gaps....
...Eric Humphery-Smith, Africa analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy, said that employing Russian mercenaries, as in neighbouring Mali, would not solve the crisis....
...“It’s so hard to cut China out of this supply chain,” said Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics....
...Additional reporting by Robert Smith in London...
...Chloe Smith, the disabilities minister, takes on the work and pensions brief....
...Subramaniam took over FedEx only six months ago, when founder Fred Smith stepped down....
...Brandon Hill, based in London, describes itself as a “natural resources merchant bank”....
...When John Smith calls us from London, I don’t know and don’t ask if he’s arriving with Barbara or with Brandon.” So said Leon Avigad, who co-founded Brown Hotels with his husband Nitzan Perry in 2010....
...Alleghany’s chief executive Joseph Brandon joined from Gen Re in 2012. Buffett said he was delighted at the prospect of working again with his “longtime friend”....
...One is to go all in and appoint an ERG cabinet: bring back former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith as chief whip, promote Braverman to home secretary or install her as culture secretary to fight a “war...
...However, in the revised report, two other counterparties are listed in these transactions: Brandon Hill Capital, a UK firm that mainly deals in the shares of mining companies, and a firm called Merit Capital...
...The first two are in the hands of Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed in November, who has subpoenaed officials in seven states....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...As one half of the production duo The Neptunes, alongside his schoolfriend Chad Hugo, Williams did for the 2000s and 2010s what Nile Rodgers did for the 1970s: creating a sound so irresistible that the musical...
...The attempted overthrow followed a surge of coups across the region: soldiers in Mali, Guinea, Chad and — last week — Burkina Faso have seized power amid rising insecurity and economic malaise....
...It recorded a further 6.9 per cent outstanding with Merit and 8.9 per cent with Brandon Hill Capital, a London-based firm that describes itself as a “natural resources merchant bank”....
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