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...Congress finally passed bills to fund the government, third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr picked a running mate and Donald Trump introduced a $60 Bible to help fund his campaign....
...Janine GibsonFT Weekend editor I was thrilled by Francis Spufford’s novel Cahokia Jazz which takes place in a week but somehow creates centuries....
...Highlights among the modern and contemporary art include a small Alberto Giacometti editioned bronze of his wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate...
...Francis Fukuyama declared in 1989 that liberal democracy had won and history was over....
...Just before Mr Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Robert Kennedy Jr, the prominent anti-vaccination campaigner, said the president-elect had asked him to chair a committee on vaccine safety, although the appointment...
...Did I want a one-on-one with Hayao Miyazaki, or Francis Ford Coppola, or — another heart-beating moment — Tennessee Williams? Tennessee Williams?...
...More: Who is Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr?...
...Robert Kennedy Jr, a nephew of John F Kennedy and a long-time critic of vaccines, said last week that he had been asked to head a commission on the safety of the treatments during a meeting with the president-elect...
...“He is going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices,” said Walter Shaub Jr, head of the US Office of Government Ethics....
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
...In Francis Criss’s “Astor Place” of 1932, for instance, black-clad women cast long shadows across a deserted downtown piazza....
...Tragically, it was dismembered by its owner, book collector Arthur Houghton, Jr, in the 1960s....
...Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr, took more than $300m in the US, with a sequel due this summer....
...It was opening at the same time as Duplicity – the return of Julia Roberts!” The sarcastic edge is palpable. “It was Julia weekend....
...When one boxer’s face gets smeared red like a Francis Bacon portrait, people jeer. Iskandar called the day before....
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