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...The Rays, meanwhile, run a far leaner operation: their highest-paid player, right-handed pitcher Charlie Morton, is projected to earn just $5.5m this year, down from $15.5m after adjustments for the shortened...
...The melody and use of chords are indebted to a mid-1950s cover of Morton Gould’s “Pavanne” by Ahmad Jamal, one of Davis’s favourite pianists....
...Business Life editor, picks: • The classic “I Quit” note by Lucy Kellaway• The hard-nosed kings of beer by Andrew Hill and Scheherazade Daneshkhu• The other Square Mile — the City at work: photostory by Charlie...
Chris Giles on shrinking UK government spending
...Matthew Engel, FT columnist, and Seb Morton-Clark discuss the friction between Olympic values and nations preoccupied with how many medals are brought home....
...Matthew Engel, FT columnist, tells Seb Morton-Clark why he feels the London Olympics prove his theory that there is a correlation between domination at the games and countries' aspirations on the world stage...
...The FT's Olympics commentator, Simon Kuper, talks to Seb Morton-Clark about the pressure on athletes and how Russia's judo gold medallist, Tagir Khaibulaev's, performed under the gaze of Vladimir Putin....
FT writers review the weekend's Olympic events
...Charlie Sartain, chief executive of Xstrata Copper and chairman of the International Copper Association, cites a lack of expert labour as one of the biggest challenges facing the booming sector....
...At the end of CD1, the slightly sedate rhythms of ragtime, not nearly as tiresome as the notes suggest, give way to Jelly Roll Morton’s modernist elasticity on 1923’s “New Orleans Joy”....
...After wife Catherine Keener walks out with their daughter, his new love Hazel (Samantha Morton), a box-office receptionist living in a continuously burning home (Magrittian surrealism), soon joins the discard...
...The commune in the Scottish highlands peopled by international impersonators – Michael Jackson (Diego Luna), Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton), Charlie Chaplin (Denis Lavant), plus a Lincoln, a Madonna and...
...Over the last 18 months, much of Mr Morton’s time was spent overseeing the integration of Legg Mason’s brokerage arm....
...Also in Lincoln Park is the city’s most upscale restaurant, Charlie Trotters....
...“Offsetting is very beneficial in raising awareness about climate change,” says Charlie Kronick, head of Greenpeace’s climate campaign....
...Sadly, the writer Zach Helm is no Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). Nor is Marc Monster’s Ball Forster a fleet hand at fantasy....
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