Hints and tips:
...“They should have come to Congress and said, ‘Well, we’d like to allow very limited gaming for research purposes.’”...
...Anderson said he’d been thinking about “realities”, and how “in the room [the collection] looks like one thing, and then we have an audience online who sees it a different way”....
...All in all, a tour de force. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D Cohan, Allen Lane £35/Portfolio $40, 816 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The first recording is not Thomas Edison’s much-documented wax cylinder recording of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, but a ghostly voice singing the folk song “Au clair de la lune”....
...Ercole I d’Este, his Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae....
...Later that month I spoke to Lara Sabra, a 23-year-old student and president of the American University of Beirut’s Secular Club....
...Last May, amid critical praise for the film’s grace and emotional punch, it took home both the Camera d’Or for best first feature and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival....
...Lara Prior-Palmer Writer, youngest winner of the Mongol Derby How are you spending the summer?...
...Finn’s own race of choice is the 106-mile Ultra-Trail de Mont Blanc....
...Lara Feigel is the curator (with John-Paul Stonard) of ‘Melancholia....
...However, Wednesday’s trading update read not so much as a carte des vins as a list of whines....
...Fischer secured 1,100 patents in his long life, a score beaten only by US entrepreneur Thomas Edison — who, however, was supported by a team of engineers, whereas Fischer worked alone....
...raison d'être....
...The realities of food here turned out to be a good deal more complex than I’d anticipated....
...“I’d rather disappoint many, many people than make some conclusion just because I’ve got to make . . . a satisfying story,” she told Slate’s Mike Pesca....
...Con Edison, the city’s biggest power utility, said it would take up to three days to restore service in Manhattan and up to a week in other parts of the city, Long Island and Westchester County....
...The annual meetings in Washington developed into something like that picture in the Musée d’Orsay, “Les Romains de la Décadence”. You know, fun....
...I have, indeed, noticed that a gym is now almost de rigueur in large houses....
...Otherwise, they’d only have taken, well 11 years.” In all, Leonard invested $250,000. But was it worth it? “Sure....
...Another is planned for Rio de Janeiro, opening next year. Mr Immelt’s commitment to innovation has been matched by sustained financial support for R&D, even through the downturn....
...Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James, Faber, RRP£18.99 This unusual offering combines two of P.D. James’s greatest passions: the detective novel and the work of Jane Austen....
...As the ascendancy of Thomas Edison over Nikola Tesla shows, self-promotion can often be more important than achievement. But then another 500 years could change this too....
...There were times when we thought we’d never get here,” admits Anna Mattirolo, the director of the art programme at Maxxi, Italy’s first national museum of contemporary art and architecture, which opens in...
...DE: I graduated as a fellow in June, and I agree with what both Lara and Arturo said....
...●Despite the Gulf tensions, Edison, an Italian power company partly owned by Electricité de France, on Wednesday said it had signed in Tehran an offshore exploration agreement....
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