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...elaine.moore@ft.com Letter in response to this article: The ultimate professional spouse — Queen Camilla / From Dee O’Connell, Lewes, East Sussex, UK...
...One guest, Conrad Burke, co-founder of San Francisco-based MetaVC Partners, describes the event as group therapy. “After four days of sheer hell you could feel the relief in the air,” he says....
...The British researcher Conrad Wolfram argues that it is perverse for teachers to focus their efforts on making sure kids are able to do sums manually, showing their working on paper....
...(Other alumni of hers include Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean and Conrad Shawcross.) “She’s been absolutely brilliant.”...
...Born in 1931 in Poole on the southern coast of England, le Carré’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell....
...They bought the title for £665m after a complex pursuit first of Conrad Black, then Hollinger International....
...The outcry over “red rubber” was also stoked by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with its phantasmagoric depictions of the horrors of colonial rule....
...“It would certainly add a tax overhead and would be detrimental to these new industries,” says Jeremy Conrad, a partner at Lemnos Labs, a venture capital firm that backs robotics and other hardware start-ups...
...Conrad Hofmeyr, one of JourneyApps’ co-founders, says the demands in the world’s most developed economy are not always so different from those in Africa....
...John Moore, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...character / From John Moore...
...Sascha Weidner (Conrads Gallery) has produced a number of terrifying series, including one of a wood in Japan that people frequent when they’re planning to kill themselves....
...Chris Ofili will produce a series of paintings, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger each a single work....
How local residents have divided sharply over a proposed new store
...Three of these, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernandez and Ellen Harvey, are no such thing; but they and the others – conceptual painter Daniel Buren, geometric sculptor Conrad Shawcross and film-maker Douglas...
...February, by Lisa Moore, Chatto & Windus RRP£12.99 How do we live with loss? In a masterful evocation of grief, Moore presents a single family felled by a real-life tragedy....
...A Gate at the Stairs By Lorrie Moore Faber, £16.99 As if the recent publication of her collected stories had not proved Moore to be one of today’s greatest American writers, along comes her fourth novel...
...Food and drink Compiled by Harry Eyres How to Drink By Victoria Moore Granta £15.99, 338 pages You might think drinking is one thing we do know how to do but Moore’s thesis is that drinking has suffered...
...Gabrielle is as much Strindberg as Conrad, Munch as Manet....
...That Looney Tunes homage is surely deliberate, as is an oblique nod later on to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Bedazzled....
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