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...It’s a blustery early spring day, but Doris Kearns Goodwin is eager to stroll around downtown Boston....
...We might think of the figure of Anna Wulf in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, or Ifemelu in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah — not a novelist but a blogger, offering her hot takes on race in America...
...“I would say the perception and reality have merged,” says Charles Foster, a leading immigration lawyer in Houston, who advised former presidents George Bush and Barack Obama on border policy....
...The work was sold from the collection of the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation in Zurich. Doris Ammann died last year and her brother passed away in 1993....
...The priciest work came courtesy of the collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann: Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964), which sold for $170mn at Christie’s in May ($195mn with fees)....
...As George Orwell noted in a 1940 essay, Dickens was not as much of a social reformer as is often thought....
...Its inimitable imprimatur can also be found in landmarks such as Shangri La, Doris Duke’s former home in Honolulu, now one of the world’s foremost Islamic art museums....
...The Warhol is being offered without a guarantee from the Zurich foundation of the late siblings Thomas and Doris Ammann, to benefit children’s charities....
...The MacArthur Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation intend to issue another $125m and $100m in bonds, respectively, and the WK Kellogg and Andrew W Mellon foundations are discussing financing...
...Reporting team: George Parker, Laura Hughes, Clive Cookson, Gill Plimmer, Donato Paolo Mancini and Peter Foster...
...The postwar years brought their own brand of glamour: Peter Sellers, John and Yoko, Romy Schneider, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Michael Caine, Robert Evans, Rock Hudson and Doris Day....
...The extensive stock – some 20,000 books – ranges from a first edition of Rainforest (£40), a novel by Doris Lessing’s unofficially adopted daughter Jenny Diski, and an early edition of A Christmas Carol...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Finding Your True North by Bill George, a businessman and Harvard Business School professor....
...In 1789 George Washington — in his first year as the first president — declared the “first” Thanksgiving for the newly minted United States....
...Her mother, Doris Robson, was born in England to American parents who had been very wealthy until the stock market crash of 1929....
...I decided that since George Eliot had made the cut, Galbraith could too....
...Thus the president changes each year: last year it was Doris Leuthard; now it is Alain Berset....
...Towards Doris Lessing she is more ambivalent....
...Its narrator is the long-retired secret agent Peter Guillam, who at this story’s end meets George Smiley himself....
...Her best-known work is Edie: American Girl, a biography of Edie Sedgwick, first published in 1982 and edited with George Plimpton, who had been her editor at The Paris Review....
...– George Magnus on the City and passporting: What you can’t do is say “Rule Britannia, the City will thrive anyway....
...Clashing cabinet secretaries are nothing new, analysts say, citing rivalries between Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz under Ronald Reagan or between Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell under George W Bush...
...Colour television had given people a reason to stay home in the evening, and the Woodstock generation wasn’t interested in another Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie....
...London’s National Gallery is showing My Back to Nature, George Shaw’s paintings in humbrol enamel, including a self-portrait urinating against a tree, in response to Titian and Cézanne....
...In recent years, Chancellor George Osborne has made it clear that science is a personal priority. We ask the government to deliver its vision for this area by protecting its essential investment....
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