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...The title story in Zero-Sum is about a troubled prodigy desperate for the validation of her professor, loosely based on the late Harvard philosophy professor Willard Van Orman Quine....
...Bannon and other advisers had set up a “war room” to co-ordinate efforts to overturn the election results at the Willard Hotel close to the White House....
...In June 2020, in Bristol, the drowning in effigy of Edward Colston the “philanthropic slave-trader” held the world spellbound. Street names everywhere have had an equally rough time....
...The congressional panel was interested in gathering information from Bannon related to the January 6 attack because he was involved in meetings at the Willard hotel in Washington DC in the days preceding...
...According to the panel, Bannon urged Trump “to focus his efforts” on January 6 and “reportedly attended a gathering at the Willard Hotel” near the White House on January 5, to “to persuade members of Congress...
...makes a knowing comment on this reliance on caricatures from the outset — “Everyone’s a type,” Rani observes to Christian as she profiles her new companions — gives hope that Merchant and co-creator Elgin James...
...Public art has also become a flashpoint, from statues of Bristol’s Edward Colston and Oxford’s Cecil Rhodes to those of Confederate army leaders in the southern US....
...Its cast of characters, among them deputy consul-general James Phillips and Admiral Harry Rawson, are worthy of the Ealing Studios — pith helmet and all....
...Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman was diagnosed with coronavirus last month but has since been given the all clear, staff were told on Thursday morning....
...WT: There’s already been a destruction — the toppling of that statue in Bristol [of Edward Colston, a 17th-18th-century merchant involved in the slave trade]....
...Mr Willard told the FT that Juul had “taken a number of leadership actions — they’ve done more than any of the other vapour companies — but it’s still not enough”....
...But then protesters in Bristol pulled a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston from his perch, and suddenly the time seemed ripe to talk about Oh Happy Day....
...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
...That’s according to the FT’s James Kynge who has written this special post for DD based on his recent long-form feature....
...Law firm Orrick has hired Cooley partner Geoff Willard. Willard joins the firm’s technology practice as a partner in Washington....
...However, when word of the location leaked out to the public, the meeting was shifted to the Willard Hotel....
...Alongside her there is forceful competition vocally in the form of two still potent Wagnerian bass-baritones, James Morris as a cold-hearted Dr Schön and Willard White an unusually robust Schigolch....
...By Alireza Jafarzadeh, National Council of Resistance of Iran August 14th marks exactly 13 years since the day I walked into a conference room at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC to...
...And the series will conclude in October with the bass Sir Willard White revelling in his enthusiasm for American song: Porter, Gershwin, Copland and Ives....
...Scottish composer James Dillon has turned them into a contemporary Stabat Mater Dolorosa for 12 voices, 11 musicians and electronics. The London Sinfonietta gives the premiere....
...This assertive emptiness is “The Ghost of James Lee Byars”, made in 1969, a living artist’s impalpable monument to himself....
...The Devil All the Time, by Donald Ray Pollock, Vintage, RRP£7.99, 261 pages It’s 1958, and in Knockemstiff, Ohio, 10-year-old Arvin Eugene Russell watches Willard, his half-crazed and suicidal father, offer...
...They include Clifton College, Badminton School, Colston Girls’ School and Bristol Grammar School, a co-ed school founded in the 16th century....
...Willard White, in the Joseph/Herod role, supplied gravitas – and a first-night audience thrilled to a contemporary masterwork....
...The opening concert, on Friday, is a rare outing for John Adams’s contemporary Latin American take on the nativity story, El Niño, with James Conlon conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Willard...
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