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.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...“I was laughed at.” He declined to say how much his $200m fund has made....
...“I don’t own any black shoes,” the ad man says. “I think brown is so much more elegant and natural. Black is just so… politician.”...
...“I love the juxtaposition of black enamel and diamonds – it’s very modern. I also have a watch by Ostertag, with enamel on the face, from my grandmother.”...
...Lee Buchheit, a senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, is retiring after more than four decades at the firm. More here....
...But within half an hour we were in it: my teammate was up on stage, aping David Cameron’s “Let me tell you about a man I met . . . ” spiel, and I was shouting “typical politician!”...
...— David Brooks in the New York Times suggests that a bit of humility on the part of the big tech companies would go a long way....
...“I wouldn’t say that we’re wildly positive,” says Pimco’s Mr Johnson. “But we’re certainly not negative at all.”...
...(Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers) Today’s poll average...
...I can play the game better — I can fly them on a 757 to Mar-a-Lago, I can fly them to California where I own a place that’s unbelievable, on the Pacific Ocean. But it’s a bad system....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...But, absent that, I expect the resilience shown so far following the June vote will continue. David Blanchflower, Bruce V....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
...I will remain extremely cautious until we have an unequivocal and practically implementable commitment by the government. David Blanchflower, Bruce V....
...Charles I and the People of England, by David Cressy, OUP, RRP£30/$49.95 Cressy is the author of several delightful books on the social history of Tudor and Stuart England that draw on curious material...
...The earlier phase dates back to the late 1980s when Hamilton was a regular customer at table 16 at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire, where he was served by David Moore, a young waiter from Northern...
...For Owens, dark matter is natural territory: “I wear all-black clothes on the beach,” he says....
...gangster Meyer Lansky and his crimes....
...I was astonished that Meyer could breathe fresh life into the Little Big Man-style plot of a white boy raised by Indians....
...Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend How I could have lived my life without having read George Saunders, I have no idea....
...As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980, by Susan Sontag, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 The second of three instalments of Sontag’s notebooks, edited by her son David Rieff and covering...
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
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