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...“We’re absolutely confident that within this contract, we have preemption rights,” said Neil Chapman, Exxon senior vice-president, at a Morgan Stanley conference on Wednesday....
...“The reason this is important is we, along with the partners, took tremendous exploration risk, financial risk, commercial risk when we went into this joint venture,” Chapman said....
...And who wasn’t moved when Luke Combs, whose earnest take on Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” helped it win a Country Music Award several decades after its release, was joined on stage by Chapman at the Grammys...
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...But Odysseus was built by a private Houston-based company called Intuitive Machines....
...“There’s a moment in the exhibition where you hear Whitney Houston’s isolated vocals and there’s no denying that power....
...The first was Tracy Chapman making a rare public appearance to perform “Fast Car” with her acoustic guitar....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...The two kings before him, Edward VIII and George V, similarly had smoking-related diseases. Come the coronation, the Queen’s antipathy to smoking echoed the beginnings of a mood of change....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...What Detroit, Little Rock and Houston have in common is that their leaders envisioned a kind of “urban renewal” by removing so-called “blighted” areas....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...But American jeweller Tess Sholom, who has works from the 1970s and 80s in the Met, as well as Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, says online collections have kickstarted her year-old gold jewellery business...
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...In southern Tamil Nadu state, where the family’s roots lie, giant billboards with Ms Harris’ face appeared, proclaiming “P.V. Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious”....
...Video of the day What the Houston consulate closure says about US-China tensions?...
...Houston Ballet played into New Yorkers’ high self-regard this weekend by showcasing the city’s own choreographers. The company style, though, is something we can only envy....
...It dominates cities including San Francisco and Houston, but is behind Grubhub in New York and Boston....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...“I was hanging out with Björk and Jarvis Cocker, and with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jay Jopling, with Hussein Chalayan and the Chapman Brothers. It was an amazing time. A revolution in the arts.”...
...Now let me ask you about this daguerreotype of you with your arm around Annie Chapman, the second Ripper victim. I do not know this woman....
...In “The Emerging”, black ceramic inverted V-shapes rise up from the ground....
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