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...Ukraine aid bill: Democrat Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is expected to propose a “Plan B” after the $118bn bipartisan spending bill that tied support for Kyiv to a crackdown on immigration at the...
...Academic and author Cory Doctorow describes the slow decay of online platforms and why we need a digital nervous system “fit to co-ordinate the mass movements we will need to fight fascism, end genocide,...
...It’s Matty Leone, who cuts my hair. He’s an Italian New Yorker who has a studio space in an office building in Union Square: you walk in, it’s just a chair in the middle of the room, and that’s it....
...He ended up working with McKinsey in Sierra Leone at the end of the Ebola crisis, where he saw first-hand the importance of diagnostics....
...“I cannot have a hallucination that says ‘Oh yeah, put widget A connected to widget B’ — and it blows up,” he said....
...In a simple shape it conveys a C, a B, an & [ampersand symbol], and suggests everything is tied together....
...Alté, denoting “alternative”, comprises an experimental style that draws on dancehall, indie and R&B and emphasises strong visual storytelling....
...I love the painting “Party Frocks” by Arthur B Timothy, a Ghanaian-born and London-based architect and painter, whose work often draws on memories from his years growing up in Ghana, Sierra Leone and the...
...Tiziana Leone, a global health expert at the London School of Economics, said the virus spread like “wildfire” among at least 13 children in her daughters’ infant school class in London, and to all their...
...JrSecretary of Education: Michael BennettAdministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Jay InsleeSecretary of Health and Human Services: Michelle ObamaSecretary of Housing and Urban Development: Cory...
...Such a multiple —14.6x EV/EBITDA—would be above those at the peak of the last cycle in 2007, when Biffa and Cory achieved c9.5-11.3x....
...Jungle Ventures’ head of fundraising and investor relations, Menka Sajnani, is departing the south-east Asian VC firm to join B Capital Group, a Singapore and US-based VC firm co-founded by former Bain Capital...
...They are structured like a vinyl record with sides A and B: the notion of grooves and furrows, the paths we choose and those upon which we find ourselves, is etched into the songwriting....
...A new species of the virus has appeared in Sierra Leone....
...Their chamber orchestra reading of “The Separation” from the film The Color Purple was as lovely as the a cappella vocals on “Wee B. Dooinit” were stirring....
...The effort, led by Cory Booker, then mayor of the city, and Chris Christie, the Republican governor, failed to win over a wary community....
...Oriani, Via Antonio Bertoloni 29/B/C (+3906-808 2621; www.orianistore.com). An unforgettable place I have travelled to in the past year is Mustique....
...To be published in the US next month Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, by Robert B Reich Knopf, RRP$26.95, 304 pages The Economics of Inequality, by Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, RRP£16.95...
...What is your plan B? Ever since I worked with the Rachel Carson Institute in Pittsburgh many years ago, I’ve always wished I could develop a parallel career in conservation ecology....
...Royal Dutch Shell B was down 1.4 per cent to £25.05, BP fell 0.4 per cent to 466.9p and BHP Billiton slipped 1 per cent to £18.72....
...Royal Dutch Shell’s B stock rose 0.9 per cent to £25.30 after JPMorgan Cazenove turned positive....
...Even Sierra Leone has suggested it could launch its own fund. The SWFs are also providing extra liquidity to local and regional debt and equity markets....
...The worst is easy – the actual travelling and getting from “A to B’” never happens fast enough for me . . . bring back supersonic travel!...
...A timeshare ABS sold by Wyndham, which runs holiday resorts across the US, included a tranche of triple B-rated bonds that yielded just 2.4 per cent, a record low....
...Mr Banga is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Thomson Reuters, Marks Spencer plc and B&M Stores Limited....
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