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...The outgoing one, David Malpass, an economist and Donald Trump appointee, was not a raging success....
...Law firm Mayer Brown has hired Charles Malpass as a partner in its finance and banking practice in London. He joins from Dechert....
...“If Trump were matter, then Biden is anti-matter — their characters are opposites,” says Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor who has been advising Biden on constitutional matters since the mid-1980s...
...’s ‘caring’ does not amount to much / From Chuck Sieck, Boca Raton, FL, US I wouldn’t trade growing up in the Bronx for anything / From Theodore Otto, Forest Hills, NY, US...
...I was struck recently by a piece by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter that looked at the growing debate, in the era of Black Lives Matter, over which historic statues and monuments should remain in...
...Mr Trump seems to prefer the Grand Old Duke of York, who marched his men to the top of the hill only to march them down again. edward.luce@ft.com...
...Lawmakers devote chunks of their schedules to raising money from donors. In most districts, the voter barely matters since gerrymandering has rigged the election in favour of one or other party....
...“Anyone who would consider putting him in a position of trust regarding financial matters should read the bankruptcy court file,” he said....
...Commenting on the Rockefellers and Carnegies of his age, Theodore Roosevelt said: “No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.”...
...“I promise you, the president has a big stick, I promise you,” he insisted in a mangled rendition of Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum about speaking softly and carrying a big stick....
...By the time he had come to live in London, and befriended the Rossettis, Swinburne and Edward Burne-Jones, the pattern of Whistler’s life had become established: the production of stunning art, a steady...
...” … If the stimulus brought matters close to boiling point, Obama’s healthcare bill set the kitchen alight. “Is this what our Founders had in mind?”...
...Then there is the small matter of managing a drawdown of US combat troops in Iraq, their redeployment to Afghanistan – the “graveyard of empires” – a continued global terrorist threat and, closer to home...
...Each piece is an obituary reminiscence of an outstanding individual: Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell on Randall Jarrell, Derek Walcott on Robert Lowell, Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane, Robert...
...of matter may have no basis in reality....
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