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...Have a tasty weekend, Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...“It might be a wake-up call for Diageo to come up with a plan B . . . beyond celebrity culture.”...
...Brooklyn or Manhattan’s Seneca in the 19th century, there are plentiful magical-realist elements too, which call to mind such works as Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer and Helen...
...A buzzy but unobtrusive soundtrack of, say, R&B or soul complements dinner....
...helen.thomas@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Slapping a green label on mortgages ‘won’t cut it’ / From Steve Round, Co-Founder, SaaScada, London EC3, UK...
...In between, Ditum investigates the collective acceptance of atrocious pop-culture moments: the media’s preoccupation with Spears’s virginity; R Kelly’s lyrics about his R&B prodigy Aaliyah, who was 12 when...
...Had Vice-president Humphrey shown some mettle and opposed President Lyndon B Johnson’s bombing of North Vietnam, he might well have won the general election....
...Typically, B shares convert into A shares when the Glazers sell. However, one of the people said the goal is for Ratcliffe to hold B shares because of the appeal of the voting rights....
...My wife Helen was diagnosed eight years ago....
...Kristen Stewart headlines not one but two offbeat tales of star-crossed lovers, Love Me and Love Lies Bleeding, while Sundance royalty Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape) returns with the thriller...
...Into the breach stepped his godfather, the plantsman Bobby Jenkinson, and his American grandmother, Lady Herbert, née Helen Gammell, from a Rhode Island business dynasty....
...During Chanel’s recent Métiers d’art show in Manchester, a panel discussion turned podcast included writer Jeanette Winterson and actor Kristen Stewart discussing the power of literature....
...there was Gillian Tett’s illuminating lunch with Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, which shed new light on the complicated, conflicted tech titan.Hannah RockDeputy editor, FT Edit (@HannahRockFT) Helen...
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...B, a biography of choreographer George Balanchine. Each wins £5,000....
...to hear”, while Helen MacNamara, former deputy cabinet secretary, discloses that concerns were raised with Buckingham Palace over No 10’s conduct towards the civil service....
...One we missed: DisneyWar, by James B Stewart. Update: The boardroom conflicts at ExxonMobil over climate change and the future of fossil fuels have only intensified since Private Empire was published....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...“Making money is art and working is art,” wrote Warhol in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, a stream of consciousness on the contemporary world....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...Helen Morrissey, head of retirement analysis at Hargreaves Lansdown, says: “After years in the doldrums, annuities have enjoyed a dramatic turnaround in fortunes over the past couple of years.”...
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...B accommodation, ski passes and internal trains and transfers; powderbyrne.com...
...As Helen Mirren’s narrator reminds us, thanks mostly to Barbie, every real-world girl and woman now enjoys a life in which “all problems of feminism and equal rights have been solved.”...
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