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...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...
...2016 Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K...
...I can hardly keep down the Cyclizine tablets my kindly butler, Prem, brings me. I say the ludicrous words out loud: “my butler”....
...Last summer, school boards in Butler County, Ohio, were assailed by a vocal faction led by the colourful sheriff demanding gun training for teachers....
...Even though it costs a grand, the iPhone X is considerably cheaper than getting a live-in butler. Yet democratising tech has made our lives worse in all sorts of ways....
...We were driving though a village when a friend with us said: “Look, K!” as we passed a house named Mayerling. “And just think,” replied MacMillan, “it’s all going on in their front room!”...
...General Electric started the week badly, with its annual 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing that its planned restatement of earnings for 2016-17 to comply with a new accounting...
...In Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889), Harris assures a group of tourists that the Hampton Court Maze is “very simple. It’s absurd to call it a maze....
...In that regard, here’s Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, writing in Forbes earlier this month: In the case of repurchase...
...All we have to do is try not to f**k it up.” My husband whispered in my ear: “Here’s bloody hoping.”...
...All rooms must be kept exactly at 20 degrees at all times, and there should be 24-hour butler service, the requirements went on....
...Where I do agree with J.K. Broadhurst, is on Scotland. This is now another emerging complication in the equation facing the whole sector....
...There is big money involved and the behaviour of the lobbying companies in and around Whitehall Place – home of the Energy Department – is now as intensive as anything that happens on K Street in Washington...
...I telephoned my friend K to talk it through. Why did I feel so hurt, so filled with that old chestnut called being-brushed-aside-by-the-big girls?...
...You wonder exactly when and how Butler became today’s accepted go-to action hero – and can something officially be done about it?...
...Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business....
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - Pensions win right to liquidation funds: The U.K....
...Duffie and Anil K Kashyap....
...Darrell Issa, the senior Republican member on the committee, accused Mr Bernanke of a “cover up” and of shutting out other regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission....
...A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z6. The alphabet is here to help you with these questions....
...Neil Stoddart, managing director, A.K. Stoddart the food company. Sarah Storey, Paralympic cyclist. Hugh Taylor, chief executive, Hilmar Hotel Management....
...Given that the salon is only a block from K Street, home to the city’s well paid political lobbyists, the idea may not be so wacky after all....
...Then it was time for the senator’s cavalcade to drive to the next engagement at a farm fair in Butler, another rural county....
...At just 3,000 sq ft, a Tesco Express is roughly the size of the US 7-Eleven or Circle K convenience stores that crowd the US urban landscape....
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