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...A case in point is the slump in high-tech mergers and acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region, writes Dylan Loh, Nikkei Asia’s Singapore correspondent....
...A K Thomson writes that this week’s chess world championships show that the game needs an injection of old-fashioned thrills....
...Bob Dylan, who was among the first to see Cohen’s lyric to the song when they met in Paris in 1984, has covered it many times....
...He still listens to Bob Dylan, and is a keen amateur painter. “My son says, ‘Oh you’re so conservative, with your sex, drugs and rock and roll,’” he says....
...Photograph: Petra Niemeier — K & K/Redfern...
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...So we’ve just had this attitude right from the beginning of, ‘Well, no one’s going to understand this, but f**k it, we’re having a great time.’”...
...One of them was Bob Dylan – my father knew him but he never had high regard for him. After Dylan became famous, my father had a hard time believing it, to be honest....
...The famous (implied) last words of Crocodile Edwards — a.k.a SocGen uber bear, Albert Edwards — this Thursday....
...Like Dylan refusing to sign autographs in the Pennebaker documentary, Coetzee had point-blank refused to answer this question when interviewed....
...His latest album, Mesabi, takes its name from the Minnesotan iron range near Bob Dylan’s childhood home....
...Radtke Frederick Towfigh Denis P. Coleman III Dimitrios Kavvathas Richard M. Ramsden Greg A. Tusar Kevin P. Connors Larry M. Kellerman Michael J. Richman Andrea A. Vittorelli James V....
...Talk Radio stars Phil Nichol (a comic who won one of the Fringe’s big acting awards last year) as disillusioned late-night phone-in DJ Barry Champlain, Stephen K....
...COLLECTED POEMS by C.K. Williams Bloodaxe ₤20, 704 pages No one is better than Williams at teasing out the moral, emotional and sensual complexities of individual moments of experience....
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