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...This is not because it is a “black swan” — that is, unimaginable. A US default falls instead into a broad category of “known unknowns”, that is unforecastable, high-impact events....
...But in two recent articles, Jonathan Swan of Axios has described something else that would be vital: a plan to ensure that the government will be staffed by true loyalists from top to bottom....
...In his twenties, Pace left a job in a bank to work with the composer W.C. Handy, known as the father of the blues....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel, a dedicated transatlanticist, never established the kind of rapport with Mr Trump that she’d had with his predecessors George W Bush and Barack Obama....
...“Three black swans in one month,” said analyst Peter Arment at Robert W Baird....
...Most of the songs sounded deeply considered and avoided stressing the more salacious poetic details, as in W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”, about a rape by Jupiter in the guise of a bird....
...(Be wary of the bellicose swans.) Hire a bike in the evening and cycle across the Oberbaum Bridge into Kreuzberg, as the lights ripple on the Spree with the TV tower in the distance....
...She was called Edith Swan Neck because she was very fair and beautiful and — ” Had a long neck. Got it....
...He takes a brief swipe at the Oxford and Cambridge-educated types who swan around the media industry, and I nod approvingly, hoping he hasn’t seen that my jacket has leather elbow patches....
...’s The Black Swan (2007)....
...George W Bush claimed he had peered into Putin’s soul and liked what he had seen. Barack Obama promised a “reset” in US-Russia relations. Neither survived reality....
...He can tell the difference between a mute swan and a whooper swan. He loves the London Eye and the Hoover Dam. He’s an accomplished deipnosophist....
...roh.org.uk, 020 7304 4000 Swan Lake, Various venues English National Ballet offers Swan Lake to audiences on Saturday at matinee and evening in the Milton Keynes’ Theatre (0844 871 7652) and at Liverpool...
...If there was ever such a thing as a black swan event in the world of estate planning, it occurred in 2010 when the US Congress unexpectedly failed to renew the federal estate tax....
...Instead of ending at a scruffy car park, the piste into town now arrives at a smart plaza in front of the W....
...… Linda, as in the Linda Murder, by Leif GW Persson, Black Swan, RRP£8.99 Winner of the 2014 Petrona Award for Scandinavian crime fiction, Persson’s sprawling, state-of-the-nation novels use the mechanics...
...Even Horace, who worshipped Pindar, compared his Greek model to a mighty swan, while he laboured like a country bee....
...In advance of the event, children would run the length of the borough bearing a small Pifco torch, each powered by the same pair of batteries purchased from the W.H....
...In a strange coincidence, you or your bank win the award. There are standards. As Dr. Theodore W....
...Lawrence Summers Charles W Eliot professor at Harvard University and a former US Treasury secretary Mark Blyth pulls no punches in Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (OUP)....
...Or for that matter overlook the chances of a black swan event....
...Plans for a similar ban on traditional bulbs are likely to cast a shadow over the US presidential campaign. US legislation signed into law when George W....
...American Wife By Curtis Sittenfeld Black Swan £7.99, 638 pages FT Bookshop price: £6.39 Drawing on significant events in the life of President George W Bush’s wife Laura, Sittenfeld’s engrossing third...
...This is typical flat Suffolk farmland, woods in the distance, with good chances of startling a hare, goose or swan....
...Sam Walsh, the head of Rio Tinto’s iron ore unit speaking at the same conference on Tuesday, said it was unclear whether the world would undergo a “V” or a “W” shaped recovery....
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