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...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway (WH Allen/Penguin Random House) Six key materials — sand (used for concrete), salt (for fertiliser), iron (and steel), copper (for...
...Stewart (a finalist in the inaugural FT book award in 2005 for DisneyWar) and Abrams tell a tale of sex, power and late-life obsession....
...Another point of interest: in the initial transition to Wynkoop from Stone Beach, portfolio manager Ed Smith initially continued with the fund. He left on July 6....
...The problem is that the people who might conceivably succeed him, a Pete Buttigieg or a Stacey Abrams, for example, seem a bit too young to take up the presidential mantle at this point....
...Over to you Ed....
...One straw in the wind came in an op-ed published this week by Abdulaziz Sager and Hossein Mousavian, well-plugged-in figures on respectively the Saudi and Iran sides....
...That, after all, is the most worthy objective — and why Stacey Abrams should receive the Medal of Freedom and The Lincoln Project should rise from the dead to roast anti-voting laws!”...
...One of the less expected consequences of Boris Johnson’s firing of Dominic Cummings is that the British prime minister now sees fit to submit op-ed articles to the Financial Times....
...Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost Georgia’s gubernatorial race in 2018, has actively campaigned to be Mr Biden’s running mate, while Kamala Harris, the California senator and former presidential candidate...
...“They are doing the best they can,” said Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and a Biden supporter....
...While he believes Abrams does not have enough experience, he has his eyes on another Georgia politician....
...Rana Foroohar responds Ed, I love that you are taking on this issue for many reasons....
...Mr Laxalt had the backing of Mr Trump, but even some members of the Laxalt family wrote an op-ed saying he was the “wrong choice” for Nevada....
...In Connecticut, a Republican candidate for Congress, Ed Charamut, sent out a mailer with the face of his Jewish opponent on it, a crazed look in his eyes, hands stuffed full of dollar bills....
...Take Ed Buxton, who specialises in international property development at Crown Capital Partners in London....
...These days, however, I doubt that many Arab leaders are reading the op-ed columns in the Washington Post (which publishes both the Ks), with quite as much attention....
...Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen years with Lee Alexander McQueen, by Anne Deniau, Abrams, RRP£45 This has been a year of Alexander McQueen books – at last count there were at least four of them...
...Apple Design, by Ed Sabine Schultz and Ina Grätz, HatjeCantz, RRP£30 Steve Jobs’ death prompted endless eulogising....
...Enterprise is “the Starbucks of ground transportation”, says Neil Abrams, an industry consultant....
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