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...s Flaubert’s Parrot, Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, Anita Desai’s In Custody and a whole handful of others....
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...FS: Last year both Booker Prizes, the French Prix Goncourt and the Nobel Prize for Literature all went to writers from the African continent....
...V Ashok, the chief financial officer of GFG Alliance, a loose collection of Gupta-family owned businesses, emailed Kaushik De, finance director at Tata Steel Europe, twice in August 2020 offering smaller...
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...George V’s horse Anmer caused whose death on June 4 1913? Which cocktail is made with vodka and orange juice (above)?...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Yet in life the revered Booker and Nobel prizewinning author was famously rebarbative....
...David G Blanchflower Bruce V Rauner Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Professor of Economics....
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
...Chief executive Samir Desai said projected returns for 2019 “continued to show an improvement over recent years”....
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere As the first black woman to win the Booker prize, Bernardine Evaristo deserved to win alone....
...The Booker felt more accessible, and with writers such as Anita Desai, Romesh Gunesekera, Rohinton Mistry or Chinua Achebe on the shortlists from early on, far more like a welcoming club....
...On the liberal side, dozens of activists from Group Justice and the pro-choice NARAL, rallied outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, together with senior Democratic lawmakers Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and...
...Citi — Tesco’s joint corporate broker — had suspended coverage while acting as an adviser for its acquisition of Booker....
...happening Inmarsat led the FTSE 250 gainers after fellow satellite operator Eutelsat pulled out of a partnership with Nasdaq-listed Viasat in favour of developing its own Very High Throughput Satellite (V-HTS...
...Today’s opinion Simeon Booker, civil rights pioneer and journalist, 1918-2017 The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow Britain faces serious questions on its defence capability In an age of cyber warfare,...
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...Having been shortlisted for 2012’s Man Booker for his debut Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil has written a second novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints (currently published in India, and published in the UK next year...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Smart reads Dumb pipes v bright lights Is AT&T savvy enough to understand the mischievous world of media?...
...In Dickens, LA, the fictional setting of Paul Beatty’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sellout, cultural appropriation is more than a question of literary ethics: it is a matter of life and death....
...Online travel booker Expedia’s fast-growing digital hotel search site Trivago has registered for an initial public offering, according to a filing on Monday....
...Mr Sessions said he remained convinced that the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision enshrining abortion rights was incorrect....
...A one-woman whirlwind, she established the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at the University of London, chaired the Man Booker Prize judges one year, was a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum...
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