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...What if I’m contacting colleagues in another timezone or working on a corporate deal? Having some kind of formal permission to switch off feels attractive....
...“I have no idea who this Nicholas Rossi is,” he told the court. “I’m sick. I’m so, so sick,” David Rossi moaned....
...I don’t have massive savings because I’m a happy-go-lucky journalist and not a huge fan of deferred consumption. But I’m beginning to grow up....
...“I’m reminded of the famous pearl we sold a couple of years ago in Geneva, which belonged to Marie Antoinette,” he says. “Estimated £1-2m, it made £36m....
...All I’m saying is that Democrats would have a far stronger case if they conceded what was good.” Though Blankfein remains as cheerful as when we sat down, I can feel the thermometer rising a little....
...Having published a hundred graphs documenting human progress, I’m often asked for reassurance that we will overcome our problems and that the coming decade will not just bring intensifying crises and declines...
...The break-up proves the catalyst for Ruth to return to her parents’ house, where her father Howard, a history professor, is becoming forgetful. Or as he puts it: “I’m just straight-up demented.”...
...The woman I had waved ahead wore a hijab: she was evidently Muslim. My very minor display of goodwill took place in a much larger context of ill will and intolerance, and had been noted as such....
...” “I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’...
...But as a minor player in that tale herself — her father ran the talent agency that became the conglomerate Universal — her strange brew of interview subjects brings novelistic riches....
...“A lot of times I have no idea of what I’m buying. All I know is that I should buy it,” says Clancey....
...Bernanke’s academic training as a monetary economist, particularly as a scholar of the Depression, hadn’t come up in his interview with President George W....
...Armed with the knowledge of her parents’ struggle, adapting to life in the US has been relatively easy. “They don’t have decent tea here but that’s a minor problem,” she says....
...Others, such as Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, also at Brookings, talk of the suburbanisation of poverty....
...and her husband W....
...I think that it can become incredibly addictive and actually begin to take over your life. If I’m looking for something, like a quote, I try to be as efficient as possible....
...I enjoyed printing up all kinds of things. “I made up a letterhead from the American Temperance Union, Reverend A. W. Paul, President....
...“Even now, I can see I’m slow at it, the answering back and all that,” she says ruefully....
...I know I’m pretty tired and I know our members are. But it was worth it,” Hastert wrote....
...POSTSECRET: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren Orion ₤16.99, 288 pages “When I’m mad at my husband, I put boogers in his soup” is one of the many grubby confessions elicited...
...“I can show them the eco-friendly lamp, but mostly I’m trying to offer examples of how to think outside the box.”...
...The first song depicted him in the grip of inertia, gazing out of a window: “I’m sitting here depressed and I don’t know why / I try to pull myself together, tell myself fix up / And I keep myself from bawling...
...In theory the Dutch could expel all known Muslims, hunt down converts such as Bouyeri’s associate Jason W. (son of a US soldier and a Dutchwoman), and stop anyone else converting....
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