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...The US proposal received a more positive response from Vladimir Putin, who said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would support the move. “A pandemic is an emergency situation . . ....
...“At present, the prospect of a V-shaped recovery for industry seems remote.”...
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Chapeaus, also, to Robert Rosner and Daniel Shearer for their mixological flair, and to everyone else for taking the trouble....
...Peak populism v the Green wave The far-right earthquake didn't quite shake the parliament's foundations....
...The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan (leonmen ) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE, by Phil Knight (Daniel Franklin)....
...Republican senator Jim Inhofe dubbed him “the clown from Minnesota”. In 2009, Icelandic comedian Jón Gnarr formed the satirical “Best Party”....
...The pirate is in many ways a mirror to the story’s hero, the young innkeeper’s son Jim Hawkins, who also finds himself torn between the two groups competing for power on the Hispaniola....
...That is the kind of question Trump likes to ask of appointees (see Jim Comey)....
...Job Moves King & Spalding has hired Jim Woolery as a New York-based partner and head of M&A and corporate governance practices....
...V. Goings, chief executive of Tupperware Brands, noting that he has denied requests from presidents of “both parties” to give speeches at its corporate campus....
...… Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend I admit. I am one of those devoted fans of Haruki Murakami....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Harvest, by Jim Crace, Picador, RRP£16.99, 320 pages Crace’s 11th book begins with harvest celebrations in a remote medieval village....
...Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen, Random House Business Books, RRP£25 Collins, author of business classics such as Good...
...Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year, by Hugh Macdonald, Boydell Press, RRP£25 Wagner reads his libretto for Twilight of the Gods to Liszt in Paris. Liszt receives Brahms in Weimar....
...In the acclaimed television comedy series Yes Minister, which satirised the workings of the British government, the rather less-than-bold minister in question, Jim Hacker, is always on the lookout for danger...
...State of Play ★★★★☆ (Kevin MacDonald) The Grocer’s Son ★★★★☆ (Eric Guirardo) Encounters at the End of the World ★★★★☆ (Werner Herzog) Shifty ★★★☆☆ (Eran Creevy) Outlander ★★★☆☆ (Howard McCain) Kevin MacDonald...
...Chief players : Jeremy Zimmer, Jim Berkus, Tracey Jacobs, David Kramer....
...“This moment was necessary, for despite a century of civil rights legislation, judicial interventions and social activism — despite Brown v....
...The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera By Daniel Snowman Atlantic Books, £40 Snowman offers a grand-circle view of opera’s social function down the centuries....
...As only a few very remote communities can fail to have noticed, James Bond is back, in the credible form of Daniel Craig....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Last week, in Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr Bush did not have the right to hold military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay....
...Charlotte Mullins is editor of the V&A Magazine....
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