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...“I made acquiring a greenhouse an absolute priority after selling my business,” says Metcalfe, former owner of a scientific contract research company....
...Woods also said Exxon will increase the capacity of a Beaumont, Texas, refinery by about 250,000 b/d early next year....
...On our last morning I gazed out over the straits, wondering if I’d ever dare to join the annual group swim across....
...“We’re kind of back to where we were more than a year ago,” said Metcalfe. “The market is going to be waiting on lab results again, which I think is something we thought we’d gotten past”....
...“People were making the visual equivalent of hate speech, and we’d say they weren’t allowed. They’d reply: ‘What are you, a cop? I’m an artist. I should be able to do whatever I want.’...
...Your feedback I'd love to hear from you. You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...Your feedback I’d love to hear from you. You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...And look, returns have been so attractive in many asset classes, you can understand that you'd book some profit. But here's the thing....
...So we'd have to rebuild it again. The fight would be on just as it is with Donald Trump. I would still be wanting to fight through the book and through the ideas that we stand for....
...“If she went to the country right now, she’d win a landslide.”...
...Mr Metcalfe said the government seemed reluctant to make such a commitment because it did not want to show its hand ahead of Brexit negotiations....
...(Independent) D-Day near miss Newly declassified files show that the world war two D-Day landings were nearly scuppered by a marital spat....
...——————————————- Details Daniel Metcalfe was a guest of Inside Japan Tours (insidejapantours.com) and the Park Hotel Tokyo (parkhoteltokyo.com)....
...What book do you wish you’d written? I don’t. The books I’ve written are the ones I’ve had to write....
...Which book do you wish you’d written? I love Steinbeck, Hemingway, Homer. But I wouldn’t want to have written someone else’s books, I’ll write my own. Where is your favourite place in the world?...
...Which book do you wish you’d written? [Melville’s] Moby-Dick; [William Faulkner’s] The Sound and The Fury and Absalom, Absalom! What does it mean to be a writer?...
...I’d learn to relax, and by relax I don’t mean quaff a bucket of bourbon and collapse into a chair. Where is your favourite place in the world?...
...What book do you wish you’d written? Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. Where is your favourite place in the world? The botanic gardens in Rio, on weekdays. What does it mean to be a writer?...
...Four years after I left the bank, I was working in manual labour, feeling like I’d failed....
...I’d like Turner’s “The Blue Rigi”, please. How would you earn your living if you had to give up writing? I’d be handing out free samples of Yakult [a health drink] in Victoria station again....
...What book do you wish you’d written? Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion. Which literary character most resembles you?...
...Interview by Anna Metcalfe Grace McCleen’s latest novel is ‘The Professor of Poetry’ (Sceptre)...
...I’d be a chef, a statistician or a barrister. Ideally all three. Where is your favourite place? In the pages of a book. What does it mean to be a writer? I always resisted a definition....
...What book do you wish you’d written? It’s a part of a book....
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