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...Not only is bashing Disney still central to the political ambitions of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, implausibly, this wilfully bland musical has been snared in the culture war since the 2019 casting of...
...“The bland style and the pace that things are being done is a concern.” Former top investor David Herro, of Harris Associates, has also criticised a deal Körner approved with a board member....
...ComedyBytes’ Eric Doyle stresses that the team is racing to improve the coding, to create more spontaneous repartee....
...There are reasons why that might, at last, be rectified — not least the harmony among Hochul, her New Jersey counterpart, Phil Murphy, and the New York City mayor, Eric Adams....
...Modern homes are said to be bland, boring and uniform while old ones are full of quirks, strangeness and charm....
...Stroud), who remain nice but bland....
...Dinklage also headlined Eric Schmidt’s 2018 New York stage production, from which the movie is adapted. More smart thinking....
...The brainchild of Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, it has the backing of venture capitalists like Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz....
...However, Eric Cheung, a law lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, said the ban on the party was “very worrying” and that the city was “shifting from rule of law to rule by law”....
...Eric Cheung, a law lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, puts it more starkly. “We are shifting from rule of law to rule by law,” he says. “Now what Beijing says is the law.”...
...Eric Garcetti said Los Angeles still aimed to be the “leading Chinese city in America for investment”, as his administration grapples with an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing, restrictions...
...We are alone in the clean, well-lit and desperately bland café. I disconsolately examine the ham and cheese ciabattas in their paper bags that we have chosen as our main course....
...Here’s south China correspondent Ben Bland’s take on the mess....
...I also found this deep dive by the FT’s Ben Bland into how Hong Kong’s 0.01 per cent has driven property prices to nosebleed levels quite instructive....
...When Donald Trump announced he was handing over control of his business empire to his sons Eric and Donald Jr, it was intended to shield the president-elect from relationships with men such as Hary Tanoesoedibjo...
...Many of the departing Labour MPs have issued only bland statements because they do not want to destabilise the party any further....
...Ms Tsai claimed victory in the presidential and legislative elections on Saturday night shortly after her rival, Eric Chu of the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist party, conceded defeat....
...Ms Tsai crushed rival Eric Chu from the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist party, in the presidential race, winning 56 per cent of the vote to his 31 per cent, as the Taiwanese people voiced their dissatisfaction...
...While political analysts believe the presidential race is a foregone conclusion, given that Ms Tsai has a 20 percentage point lead over KMT rival Eric Chu, the legislative contest is much tighter and campaigning...
...In 2010, she narrowly lost the election for mayor of New Taipei to the KMT’s Eric Chu — a defeat avenged when she trounced him in Saturday’s presidential contest....
...the 59 year-old has fought back from losing two big elections, including the most recent presidential contest, to the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist party, and built a 20 percentage point lead over Eric...
...Eric Chu, KMT chairman and mayor of New Taipei, said in a speech that candidates for the legislative elections, which will be held at the same time as the presidential contest in January, were concerned...
...Ms Tsai has a substantial lead in polls over her rival from the governing Kuomintang, Eric Chu....
...Ben Bland is the FT’s South China correspondent Photograph: Adam Ferguson...
...Mr Xi met Eric Chu, the KMT chairman who is now his party’s presidential candidate, this year....
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