Hints and tips:
...“I didn’t think you’d need your pyjamas,” she says, hopefully....
...He’d seat those doing business at a roomy face-to-face table near the back....
...Peel Hunt’s other concern, that Darktrace invests too much in marketing and not enough in R&D, could hold sway in the long run....
...“Back at the time of Moonlight, I thought we’d just keep making Moonlights. I didn’t think we’d make a nine-hour drama for television either.”...
...Stocks wise it’s all much as you’d expect....
...He appeared in action films with a perfunctory youth gloss: D irty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Race with the Devil (1975)....
...She had turbulent affairs with men, including Bobby Kennedy and actor Warren Beatty — and with women, including dancer Lucinda Childs and photographer Annie Leibovitz....
...Finally we’d flag the substantial capital flowing into the space from various other actors as evidence that there could be wider interest too.”Credit Suisse ● Sanne, the fund administration outsourcer,...
...A friend of the head trader: “[I’m] sure your parents never imagine[d] they’d raise a son who [would] destroy the housing market in the richest nation on the planet”....
...When Warren Beatty opened the envelope he’d been given at the Academy Awards ceremony, live on stage in front of Hollywood’s most powerful stars and a TV audience of tens of millions, what he saw in front...
...Or D. Mr Clark: OK, is everyone on the line? How can we, er, help? CBI president: We need clarity about what happens next, and how you can come back with a Brexit deal that Parliament can pass....
...Balfour Beatty’s rallying hard on forecast beating full-year results, unchanged guidance and a buyback delay due to Covid-19. Cash is the big thing....
...Or D. Read the full column here....
...I’d tell you all the juicy details but I don’t want to spoil a thing. (The New Yorker.) Let children get bored again. My mum sent me this so you know it’s good....
...I can’t be sorry, exactly, that American author Paul Beatty won the Man Booker in 2016 for The Sellout — not least because it’s a really funny book, and humour doesn’t tend to get a look-in on Booker shortlists...
...Mr Quinn even suggested that if it shrank another £500m he’d be quite comfortable. He is not complaining about being short of cash, either....
...He couldn’t figure it out; he’d planned meticulously. Then the foreman pointed out something he’d overlooked. Human errors had crept in, resulting in a building 7ft longer than it should be....
...Mr Beatty’s The Sellout has sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide....
...But even if America’s concern is the narrowest raison d’état, rather than world peace, it would profit from reading beyond its borders....
...If the Academy had any sense, they’d remake the statue as a woman. With boobs. Kate Muir is a screenwriter and critic....
...But in 2010 and 2012 there were no female directors in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes....
...The sector has shrunk to just two sizeable businesses: Balfour Beatty, which has drawn back from the abyss; and Carillion, which is plunging into it....
...But analysts at UBS pointed to the “thin” equity value and said they “struggle[d] to see Carillion executing on a turnround”....
...Carillion, Balfour Beatty and others have suffered over mispriced contracts — though Balfour appears to be through the worst....
...In an influential essay from 1994, the American foreign-affairs writer Robert D Kaplan described a trip across a continent raddled with disease, corruption and violence....
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