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...The Thai border town of Mae Sot is a seething microcosm of spirited resistance, dislocation and despair....
...Sculpted by Amy Mae’s eloquent lighting, Annabelle Comyn’s mesmerising staging (presented in partnership with Dublin’s Abbey Theatre) draws you into a claustrophobic household seething with desire, damage...
...Food and drink It has taken quite a while for England to embrace its native ferments, but English sparkling wine is now fully respectable, writes FT wine correspondent Jancis Robinson....
...“I really understand how Catholics were treated in Belfast and Northern Ireland — it was horrific,” says Paula Robinson, 33, who attended Black Mountain as a teenager and now runs the group....
...“It’s like Reverend Jesse Jackson always said, baseball became a better sport after Jackie Robinson started to play.”...
...I even told my FT predecessor, David Robinson, whose move to The Times allowed me in, that I didn’t expect to become a veteran....
...Blood is throbbing at my temples, the air is rasping at my throat, and my brain is blaring Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” on repeat. The steep road before me will not relent....
...Additional reporting by Gwen Robinson in Bangkok A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 9 2018. ©201 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...He earned this position after a rapid rise through the fashion world, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1994 and working for designers ranging from Donna Karan to Tom Ford until 2001, when he joined...
...Of the mega names on the fashion week schedule, from Celine to Fendi, Dior, Vuitton, Givenchy, Pucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren...
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...They may have specific requirements, but there are few prima donnas. But you get those in all sectors, whether lawyers or bankers.”...
...François Nosten, who runs a malaria research operation in Mae Sot on the Thai side of the border, says there is “virtually no transmission” of malaria at refugee camps....
...Mr Biggs runs the company with his wife, Donna, who started the business in a spare bedroom in 2003. It now runs out of a 5000sq ft warehouse and employs 12 people....
...Claire Robinson, a managing director in the structured finance business at Moody’s, said: “Post-financial crisis, the environment has changed....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...It’s hardly a new subject of course – Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 – but in the context of the “always-on” digital world, it feels more relevant than ever....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage guarantors, and private investors who own mortgage loans were also mentioned as possible providers of cash in the scheme....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been quietly lobbying the US Treasury to cut the dividend that the housing finance groups pay on preferred stock issued as part of their government bail-out, reports the FT...
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have cost the US taxpayer $150bn and the bill could rise to at least twice that....
...Bank of America has moved to resolve claims that its Countrywide Financial unit sold loans based on faulty information, agreeing to pay $2.6bn to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled US mortgage giants...
...Fannie Mae reported its smallest quarterly loss in three years on Thursday, suggesting it will need less government aid than had been expected, reports the FT....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US government-backed mortgage lenders, have lost $226bn since mid-2007, according to a government report on Thursday, reports the FT....
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