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...So the eight-year-old Eric decided he’d do the deed for which he’d been punished and set fire to the school. “I got rather frightened and I thought I’d better tell the headmaster,” Hebborn said....
...Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Little, Brown £18.99/Viking $28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...But what are all these photographs of buildings and landscapes from summer holidays, so forgettable I’d even forgotten I’d taken them?...
...Smart reads Plan B Rightwing tycoon Peter Thiel’s political donations have yet to spark the change he’d hoped for....
...Otherwise it is, I’m afraid, exactly what you’d expect from a film made very quickly to cash in on the stunning popularity of a brand new intellectual property: that is to say, it’s bad!...
...Though always law-abiding himself, he’d never be so vulgar as to ask clients if they had ever stolen, say, Russian mineral wealth. I suspect he’s now going through his client list in a panic....
...I thought I’d make a terrific politician. This was in 1984, when Geraldine Ferraro was the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major party, running on Walter Mondale’s presidential ticket....
...Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Her latest book is ‘The Secret Chord’ Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...“The green and digital messages are increasing and hard to ignore,” argues Geraldine Sundstrom, portfolio manager at Pimco....
...What you see time and again is that, if they’re not going to make it, they cut the things that are easy — usually people or R&D.”...
...He and his wife Diane support black community groups in nearby Leeds, including the Geraldine Connor Foundation....
...We all think, if I had x amount of money I’d be fine, but it really isn’t as simple as that. Great wealth can come with a great many problems.”...
...I'd call myself a business technologist. I've been doing that for the majority of my lifetime now....
...That’d be a monstrous undertaking and itself could rank among the largest healthcare deals ever struck. Bristol has a market cap of about $85bn....
...My wild-eyed hope for the daughter I’d seen dead seemed to have come true with startling ease”....
...Then, Geraldine Brooks, the writer, who grew up nearby, said it was a “no-brainer”. We’ve applied for a liquor licence. So, it’s going to be “Bookoccino by Day, Bookovino by Night”....
...“Just believe . . . if I’d stopped to think about it too hard, I might never have done it.”...
...When my sister and I would visit, she’d dissect events from the past with stunning accuracy, commenting on things she’d obviously thought at the time but had been too polite to say....
...Be honest: if you made a list of stage adaptations for which you’d expect to find a notice warning of strobe lighting effects, Jane Austen’s Persuasion wouldn’t be among your top 500 likely candidates....
...“Like many who work a four-day week, I’d spent a lot of time building up trust and working my socks off and really trying to get as much experience as possible.”...
...From Star Trek: The Next Generation to Battlestar Galactica, the work of genre veteran Ronald D Moore has cheerfully pilfered Dick’s ideas....
...Get in touch with the team: Due.Diligence@FT.com Peltz v P&G: D-Day The biggest and most expensive proxy fight ever seen is coming to a close today, when Procter & Gamble shareholders vote in Cincinnati...
...But she is quick to add: “People have to realise if we’d only relied on product made in the UK, all of the UK assay offices would have gone bust ages ago.”...
...At the giant slalom start gate, high above the French resort of Val d’Isère, former champion racer Géraldine Petit was revealing her secrets....
...His mother, Géraldine Lutten, was a French Catholic from Arcachon....
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