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...St Paul thought that the resurrection of Jesus presaged an all-out raising of the dead within his lifetime....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...At Cambridge he was taught by a visiting Milton Friedman, Joan Robinson and, most importantly, Harry Johnson....
...J Laurens, Les Graimenous 2016 Crémant de Limoux £15 Cellar Selected of Yorkshire Not bone dry but a respectable, good-value party wine that foams gently rather than aggressively....
...Stretching from James Brown to J Dilla, the list sets up the span of this patchy but mostly excellent double CD....
...et Fils Beaune, Grèves Vignes de L’Enfant Jesus Grands Crus 2001 Dujac, Clos St-Denis 2001 Rossignol-Trapet, Latricières-Chambertin 2000 Armand Rousseau, Clos de la Roche See Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com...
...It is a parody of the self-sufficient Protestant capitalism that Defoe had celebrated in Robinson Crusoe (1719)....
...For all Jancis Robinson’s Christmas recommendations go to ft.com/christmaswine Illustration by Ingram Pinn...
...£39.95, Berry Bros and others Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve NV The spearhead of a campaign by the new owner of this house to reposition it firmly upmarket....
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers, by Francis Haskell, Yale, RRP£30/$60 A connoisseur’s volume: the story of the European dispersal of Charles...
...Charles de Gaulle, France’s then president, suggested Hallyday might like to expend his excess energy breaking rocks in prison....
...You do now,” says Mr Robinson. The result has been an exodus of large leisure yachts from Italy....
...Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One : Not For Turning, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 896 pages Published within weeks of Lady Thatcher’s death, Charles Moore’s biography is the...
...Rarely, however, has the chasm between an author’s work and his life seemed as wide as it does in Charles J Shields’ new biography of Kurt Vonnegut....
...Jesus is gone but Mary is still on earth, harassed by evangelists who want to make her life a story....
...The canny Sir Alan had the stocks valued by Christie’s before drawing up my invoice, so my J J Prüms were not quite as much of a bargain as I was expecting....
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
...More followers than Jesus!...
...Charles Diebel, head of rates strategy at Nomura, will answer readers’ questions on this issue on Monday, Nov 9. Post a question now at ask@ft.com, or click on the above link....
...One of those, however, proved eerily prophetic: “Goldman Sachs has as much influence now that the old J. P. Morgan had between 1895 and 1930,” said Charles R....
...The financial world, in a sense, has lost its compass Comment: Charles Goodhart: it’s not the time to worry about moral hazard The continued closure of wholesale financial markets has been the main cause...
...J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic I’m against the $85,000,000,000 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a ‘We Deserve It Dividend’....
...But Jung, a Canadian who succeeded Charles R. Perrin in 1999, has not always enjoyed such buoyant times. Four years ago, she steered Avon out of one of its most difficult periods on her watch....
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