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...Shearman & Sterling partner James Duncan has quit the US law firm ahead of its merger with Allen & Overy to join Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London....
...With CIA director Allen Dulles’s blessing, secret research programmes such as “Artichoke” and “MK-Ultra” set out to discover, among other things, “what happens when people are kept awake for days, put into...
...In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, an alcoholic war veteran sets out the two ways he went bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.”...
...Still, the book is chock-full of the kind of anecdotes that are catnip for booklovers, from expensive errata — the 20,000 copies of “The Importance of Being Ernest” that came back from the printers, or a...
...DAVID ALLEN GREEN: Hello. My name is David Allen Green, and I am a legal commentator for the Financial Times....
...City Lights’s defining act came in publishing Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in 1956....
...A large scrubbed oak table designed by Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb is surrounded by a set of ladder-back rush-seated chairs by Ernest Gimson....
...William Beveridge’s famous report on social welfare stunned John Maynard Keynes with its expense and infuriated the cabinet — especially Beveridge’s boss, the Labour minister Ernest Bevin....
...“It is a place of inspiration as well as a source of information,” says the explorer Benedict Allen....
...A splendour that once attracted Ernest Hemingway, who used to hunt and fish in the Big Wood river before his death in 1961....
...Octopus, the 126-metre adventure yacht of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has room for two helicopters....
...The business school already bears the Rady name as the result of the $30m that Evelyn and Ernest Rady gave to establish the school in 2004....
...“Whenever you say to someone, ‘I’ll get back to you about that’, you just opened a loop in your brain,” says David Allen. Allen is the author of a cult productivity book called Getting Things Done....
...To make her case, Doughty cites The Denial of Death, a groundbreaking book by the American anthropologist Ernest Becker that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974....
...They featured the “dignified but flippant” aquatic bird emblem suggested by Joan Coles, secretary to the publisher’s founder Allen Lane....
...Allen Moyer’s set depicts Stein’s salon in patterned gray wallpaper and empty picture frames....
...He shared a tent with Capa, and hung out with Capa’s old friend Ernest Hemingway, who didn’t appear very interested in survival....
...From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 368 pages Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote...
...Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, by Gavin Francis, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99 It is 101 years since Ernest Shackleton published The Heart of the Antarctic, but the white continent’s...
...In terms of box office revenue for Allen, this is easily a record. It’s no surprise. In this film Allen revels in his genius for showing not neurosis but happiness....
...Thus, in 1960, the jurors liked Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King but the board wanted Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent....
...Here is Woody Allen’s parody of the genre: “I come upon a man at an outdoor café. It is André Malraux. Oddly, he thinks that I am André Malraux.”...
...Daniel Day-Lewis, of course, but I’d settle for Woody Allen. When do you feel most free? Skiing on a clear cold day in the mountains. How do you relax?...
...When, in 2006, I began to adapt Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden, a novel loosely based on Hemingway’s first marriage and a love triangle that sprang up between the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, and...
...Allen Ginsberg famously saw the best minds of his generation “destroyed by madness …starving hysterical naked”....
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