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...Results: Several retailers report results, including Dick’s Sporting Goods and Dollar General in the morning, and Ulta Beauty after the closing bell. Software group Adobe reports after market close....
...Disney is facing proxy battles with Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners and Blackwells Capital, which are seeking board seats and other changes aimed at boosting its share price....
...Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is as ineradicable a seasonal earworm as “Jingle Bell Rock”. Some years ago, I set off to forage for wild chestnuts in a cemetery in King’s Cross....
...Graphics by Ella Hollowood and Eir Nolsoe in London...
...In the depths of Covid, when human contact seemed so far beyond reach, I serenaded my unsuspecting neighbour with “Jingle Bells” on the sax, as the snow fell....
...One character does a mock Quasimodo with mournful panache — “The bells! The bells!” — as if to outdo Charles Laughton. Victor Hugo would be proud....
...Trembling Bells scrump from the same orchard....
...Are we supposed to actually notice that Ella has stopped posting pictures of her children, or those random bits of wall art she likes?...
...In an interview with BBC Newsnight earlier this month, Lord Bell, co-founder of Bell Pottinger, said that Mr Geoghegan had played a part in the Guptas hiring Bell Pottinger....
...But Blackwell’s, my safe space, my emotional-support bookshop, now contained a coffee shop, and a range of amusing pencil cases....
...Think about it as a bell shaped curve. The average is between seven and eight. It’s possible to be in the tails of that curve and be fine....
...“We are constitutionally constipated,” said Lord Bell. “Someone has just got to keep us calm.”...
...Vanessa Bell condemned the members for behaving as if they held the “secret of the art universe, a secret one was not worthy to learn, especially if one was that terrible, low creature, a female painter”...
...Prof Ella Bell will also be teaching a leadership class. Plan a trip to London ESCP Europe is opening its London campus doors....
...In this reckoning, “the end of ideology” that sociologist Daniel Bell perceptively identified in 1960 was to be out-trumped by “the end of history” that another American, Francis Fukuyama, proclaimed after...
...Bell is honest about the challenges her disability has posed but finds grace in even the worst setbacks....
...Michael Bublé materialises at the mantelpiece for a cardigan-clad duet of “Winter Wonderland” while Ella Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, makes a posthumous appearance on “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?...
...Ella’s Kitchen has been taking share from multinational companies, says Mr Hoffman....
...david.blackwell@ft.com...
...But when companies like Itis decide to leave, alarm bells should ring....
...rebecca.bream@ft.com David Blackwell is away...
...Philip Dorgan, retail analyst with Panmure Gordon, said the statement had “set the alarm bells ringing” and implied a dramatic slowdown in sales, given that in the last update sales were up by 22 per cent...
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