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...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...She points to the case of Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company controlled by certain members of the philanthropic Sackler family criticised for its part in the US opioid painkiller crisis....
...He shushes me and points to the hill up ahead. Smith and I are on a grouse hunt....
...Darpa (the “D” for defence was added later) funded 70 per cent of all US computer research in the early 1960s, much of it coming from labs in the Californian hills around Stanford University....
...They met when Kingsolver was in town lecturing as part of a “starving artists fellowship” at a local university, where he taught....
...This article has been amended to correct the story of how Odysseus resisted the sirens andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...In 1991, when I wrote about legal matters for the Wall Street Journal, I covered the Thomas-Hill hearings....
...Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby Patrick Radden Keefe, Picador £20/Doubleday $32.50 Shortlisted for Business Book of the Year, this is an exhaustive, devastating account of how Purdue...
...The other finalists were: The World for Sale, by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, about the commodities boom; Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, on Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, and the opioid epidemic...
...His fascination with flight lasted and he went to the Technical University of Munich to study aerospace engineering....
...Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, explores the links between the Sackler family and the global epidemic of opioid addiction through the rise and fall of Purdue Pharma, a company owned by two of the...
...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
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...I recall similar feelings about Purdue Pharma and its promotion of the addictive painkiller OxyContin a few years back. The tide seems to have turned on the Sackler family....
...A Rotary Foundation scholarship brought me to Japan for the first time after university, and that’s when I properly learned Japanese and met my relatives here....
...Need for transparency Sneader, a genial but driven Celtic FC fan who joined the firm straight from Glasgow University in 1989, says he never liked the idea of the McKinsey mystique....
...In Fulham and Battersea, and in the newer London places of Sloane settlement spreading out from Notting Hill, interior design is much more fashion-driven now....
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...Mr Trump was due to visit Georgia on Monday, despite Mr Purdue’s absence from the campaign trail. Mr Purdue and his wife have both so far tested negative....
...AstraZeneca’s US clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine developed with Oxford university has shown 79 per cent efficacy at preventing symptomatic disease and 100 per cent efficacy against severe or critical...
...(FT) When Milton Friedman, prophet of profit, met a pandemic Coronavirus sheds fresh light on the University of Chicago economist’s narrow definition of social responsibility in three ways, Andrew Hill...
...Recent data from the University of Maryland tells another story in supposedly protected areas....
...In southern Tamil Nadu state, where the family’s roots lie, giant billboards with Ms Harris’ face appeared, proclaiming “P.V. Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious”....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
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