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...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...Prophet is certainly a gear change for Macdonald, renowned for her bestselling 2014 grief memoir H is for Hawk....
...After Reagan seized the 1980 Republican nomination, Kissinger repackaged himself as a cold war hawk. Reagan was unconvinced and did not offer him a job....
...“He’s a budget hawk yet he understands that the alternative is too costly not to do more.”...
...Two FOMC members dissented, while James Bullard, president of the St Louis Fed, sought a 50bp easing....
...Among the FOMC voters, James Bullard, the St Louis Fed president, dissented as he sought an immediate 25bp rate cut....
...This wasn’t your typical capsule collection, the sort that H&M and Target have flanked over the past decade....
...James Stavridis, a former Nato supreme allied commander now dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, said the move raised serious concerns....
...Senators Bob Corker and James Lankford, both deficit hawks, had persuaded leaders to agree in principle to a trigger mechanism that would automatically reverse some cuts if assumptions about how they would...
...Under Belgian law, an extradition order can be blocked on concerns over human rights or if the applicant seeks political asylum in the country instead (h/t Reuters)....
...In Britain fire hydrants tend to be small concrete paddles marked with a mean yellow enamel “H”. The mechanics are all underground, invisible....
...I think I started to understand the strange love affair between woman and bird in Helen Macdonald’s unforgettable memoir H is for Hawk ....
...The company’s “scramjet-powered” SR-72 could come into service by the 2030s and has the potential to transform military and civilian aviation....
...Following in the tradition of TH White’s The Goshawk (1951), JA Baker’s The Peregrine (1967) and, most recently, Helen Macdonald’s rapturously received H is for Hawk (2014), Lockhart elegantly depicts these...
...In place of junk food for the brain have come more thoughtful books, such as Helen Macdonald’s soulful H Is For Hawk (2014) and James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life (2015), showing the punishing chores behind...
...for Hawk (2014) give readers a return to a greener world....
...The bookmaker William Hill has made How to be Both its 6/4 favourite to win, followed by 3/1 for H is for Hawk and 4/1 for Elizabeth is Missing....
...H is for Hawk. The audience applauds, an emotional Helen Macdonald comes to the stage – and our work is done. Lorien Kite is the FT’s books editor Illustration by Luke Waller...
...Helen Macdonald Author of ‘H is for Hawk’, winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction To Richard Kerridge, British reptiles and amphibians are creatures as exciting, strange and savage as...
...Though seen as amoral by some, statesmen such as Dwight Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, James Baker and George H W Bush grasped the world’s complexity and were good at playing it to America’s...
...Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk , an exhilarating journey around falconry and TH White, became the first memoir, and the first work of nature writing, to win Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize....
...In 1862 the meteorologist James Glaisher reached a height of seven miles (above Wolverhampton)....
...The contrast with his father, George H.W....
...James Mann, of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, says Mr Friedberg is a “thoughtful hawk”, while Mr Feigenbaum is “more in the Kissinger-Scowcroft mould”....
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