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...St Vincent, aka US singer-songwriter Annie Clark, is an elusive figure. Like her hero David Bowie, each album is a rebirth. Looks are changed, the sound is altered, the concept shifts....
...The place that means a lot to me is the Hotel Saint Vincent in New Orleans....
...Caitlin Clark was unable to lead the Iowa Hawkeyes to victory in yesterday’s NCAA championship game. Here’s the full report from NBC News. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Sport: Caitlin Clark leads the Iowa Hawkeyes towards a potential rematch with Louisiana State University this weekend in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament....
...Covid timewarp: Four years after Covid lockdowns began we are still learning about pandemic hangovers, writes Pilita Clark....
...Meeting motormouths: The ability to interrupt the yammering windbags who make work meetings a misery is a sorely underrated skill, says Pilita Clark....
...Overblown job titles: Some headhunting firms say job title inflation has grown so much since the pandemic that it outstripped the actual inflation that has rippled across the world, writes Pilita Clark....
...Pilita Clark asks, why are women still being cast off the glass cliff? Chart of the day Women’s share of tech jobs has increased across advanced economies since the pandemic....
...The ousting of Ed Clark, a vice-president and general manager of the Seattle-area factory where the 737 Max is built, comes as Boeing encounters intense regulatory scrutiny....
...Working from home: Lower wage growth and higher productivity might be why bosses like remote working more than we think, writes Pilita Clark. Biden 2.0?...
...Climate politics: Too many green activists still fret about a lack of “political will”, as if such a force can be magically bottled, writes Pilita Clark....
...Read the FT’s full interview with Vincent Mortier. 3....
...I think Pilita Clark’s article on April 1 has got it wrong on Rishi Sunak’s decision to row back on the UK’s net zero commitments (“Britain’s quiet green business success story”, Business Life, April 1)....
...‘Orwellian doublethink’: When historians look back at Wall Street’s response to climate change in the 2020s, they will see much that looks deeply unwise, writes Pilita Clark....
...Data visualisation by Jonathan Vincent...
...Office life: Mispronouncing a colleague’s name at work can be hazardous — and not just if it’s the boss, writes Pilita Clark....
...Take a break from the news The haze of jet lag from a 23-hour flight to London from Australia made the FT’s Pilita Clark wonder how long researchers had been studying the tedious scourge, and whether they...
...COP28 summit: The ballooning presence of business executives at UN climate talks has prompted a rethink about their role, writes Pilita Clark....
...Leadership: The prevalence of toxic management is difficult to measure — but white-collar workers are by no means immune, writes Pilita Clark....
...Some — like Dexter Gordon’s Go and A Fickle Sonance by Jackie McLean — are now recognised as classics. And there it ends. Clark died of heroin overdose in 1963, aged 31....
...Take a break from the news Not that long ago, the office whipround was a reasonably straightforward affair, writes Pilita Clark....
...Matta-Clark, among others....
...The most surprising thing about the story, writes Pilita Clark, was the derision directed not at Fekete but at Citi. Who do you think was right in this case? Vote in our latest poll....
...Climate ‘stuckness’: The need for faster climate action has never been more widely accepted, writes Pilita Clark, but we’re not making the progress required....
...Flying is getting better and also harder: New technology is improving travel just as flight shaming enters a new phase, writes Pilita Clark....
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