Hints and tips:
...And here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: US interest rates: The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold rates steady at a 22-year high when it announces its latest monetary policy decision....
...“I’m sorry,” she said. “When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret.”...
...Here’s what else I’m watching today....
...“I’m not in Iowa at the state fair,” he told Fox News earlier this month. “I’m campaigning in Virginia for Virginians, not around the country.”...
...Anyway, I’m glad he’s still around and writing great stuff. And that good editing still lives at The Atlantic....
...Here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today: UK Covid inquiry: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears before the official inquiry into the government response to the pandemic, during which he served as chancellor...
...That has certainly been the case for retailing behemoth H&M, which discloses third-quarter figures on Wednesday....
...I’m a very cool person....
...Its president, Claudine Gay, resigned this month after being criticised for her answers at a congressional hearing on antisemitism and being accused of plagiarism....
...On Friday, she apologised for her testimony, telling the Harvard Crimson, the university newspaper: “I’m sorry . . ....
...At one point in La course en tête, a classic documentary film about the Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx, the rider’s wife, Claudine, considers what might happen when he can no longer race....
...I sometimes play with the novelist Tim Lott, who used to frequent a public course in Perivale with his dad, a greengrocer....
...Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, the former top Democrat and Republican in the Senate, forged a bond serving together in the mid-1990s....
...In a private meeting with Republicans earlier this week, Mr Trump threatened Mark Meadows, the head of the Freedom Caucus, saying: “Mark, I’m gonna come after you”....
...Trent Lott, former Republican Senate leader who is now at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, has warned that a major shift in attitudes is needed among politicians....
...I’m very unhappy with the lack of ability to get things done,” says Mr Lott, 74, now a lobbyist at Squire Patton Boggs....
...I’m not suggesting that galleries shouldn’t continue to collect. Rather, I think we should make more effective use of what we already have. There are a number of possible solutions....
...“It’s important to stop and walk if you need to,” says Gordon Lott, run2work’s founder....
...“I’m tired of watching people get elected, only to inherit more perks than you have.” The audience cheered....
...So I’m happy to take my time – to draw a line on negative stresses and find a stillness to work with and from.”...
...Lott lives in London. Who is your perfect reader? Someone who is as intelligent as I am. If they’re too stupid, then they won’t get everything. If they’re too clever, they’ll think I’m stupid....
...“I’m not sure Palin will run, although she is obviously thinking about it,” says David Hoppe, a top aide to Trent Lott, the former Republican leader in the Senate....
...He claps his hands together and announces: “I’m doing chicken with garlic and onions.” One of his teammates puts him right: “We don’t have onions and oil. And there’s no salt....
...“I’m quite clear, quite focused [and] take time to talk to people.”...
...I hope making money hasn’t changed me, but I’m not really the best person to judge. Pixie Lott, 19, musician Music, for me, is medicine....
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