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...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...Douglas Preston, a best-selling author and previous president of The Authors Guild, said that financial groups were “profoundly ignorant of publishing”....
...His name was made when wildlife documentary makers Malcolm Douglas and Steve Irwin, both soon friends, arrived to make films....
...Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 film, Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait, records Zidane’s every movement during a 2005 match, the cameras — 17, apparently — trained on his body, often his face,...
...(Of the hieroglyphs, Egyptian Theatre expert Mark Simon says: “They tell absolutely no story whatsoever.”)...
...No one needs to hear that,” advises Simon Lancaster, a leading business speechwriter. The complexity of honesty at work is something chief executives’ advisers are beginning to recognise....
...So Douglas Engelbart’s demonstration of hypertext links in San Francisco in 1968 appears first after a section on museums and memory, then returns much later as a landmark of search-engine development....
...Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Jonathan Cape) An award-winning biographer of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and a professor of English literature at Oxford university, Douglas-Fairhurst...
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...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...The other big pleasure is designer Simon Higlett’s panoramic set (however long does it take to assemble it?)....
...Sir Douglas Flint, chair of fund manager Abrdn, said that a functioning democracy required trust in its leaders....
...The estate agent has long marketed homes built largely from timber, such as a single-storey house by Simon Winstanley near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway (selling for £880,000)....
...“The prince had his passion, but he ran it like a business,” explains Douglas Erskine Crum, Juddmonte CEO and former chief executive of Ascot racecourse....
...(Simon Mundy) Quote of the day “Brazil is back.”...
...Follow Simon on Twitter @KuperSimon and email him at simon.kuper@ft.com Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first.Letters in response to this article:Don’t blame Johnson for Oxford...
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...The main hurdle for more nascent types of hydrogen, such as turquoise, will be to prove their “commercial scale”, Douglas says....
...Even before the curtain goes up, Simon Keenlyside’s Iago is present stage front....
...“I think for the majority of our customers this will be a period where they want to suspend their concerns about the state of the economy,” said Fuller, Smith & Turner chief executive Simon Emeny....
...Among his greatest misjudgments was his unwavering support for Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the commander of the forces on the western front, despite his strategy proving an ineffective waste of life....
...Garsington has Natalya Romaniw in the title role and artistic director Douglas Boyd conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra....
...Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says the issue around technology access has long been brewing between the US and its allies....
...Estate agent Foxtons has agreed to dispose of its Douglas & Gordon division and all related branches, which it had bought in March 2021 for £15.5m....
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