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...John Fetterman Democrat, Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, 53, is the only US Senate candidate who “flipped” a seat in the midterms, defeating former television personality Mehmet Oz in an open contest...
...He espouses progressive causes such as legalising cannabis, but has also built a blue-collar base of support by focusing on regenerating communities such as his home town of Braddock, where he worked as...
...Former president Barack Obama, who has criss-crossed the country in the last week in support of Democratic Senate candidates, shared the stage in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning with John Fetterman, Pennsylvania...
...His first job on Wall Street was working the night shift in Salomon Brothers’ mailroom, which he did to pay for tuition at St John’s University, where he studied English....
...The economist John Maynard Keynes said by about now we would all be so rich, no one would have to work. He was wrong too....
...But a few levels down the political hierarchy, an unexpected style hero emerged — John Fetterman, lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania....
...“A majority victory isn’t possible unless they win in some of those unexpected places,” says Braddock....
...British director John Schlesinger’s first American film, shot with a vibrant immediacy on New York streets, seems a triumph for outsider’s-view realism. It is — on the outside....
...My education came through [former curator of photographs at MoMA] John Szarkowski’s canon of mostly white men, their syntax and grammar....
...Listen to the FT’s fortnightly culture podcast ‘Everything Else’ for lively discussion and star guests, including Jude Law, Sally Rooney, Nish Kumar, Kate Tempest and John Cooper Clarke...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...(Hoffman was 30 when he played 21 year-old Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate.) Under the old system, the peak in annual repayments on average around the age of 30....
...Worse still, the hat looks from another era, as if she had been transformed into Bessie Braddock....
...It went to John Wayne [for True Grit],” he looks at me, too tactful to say more....
...Christine Braddock, president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, said: “These latest shocking figures are even more reason for the government to provide businesses with the freedom to create jobs and wealth...
...To paraphrase Mr McGuire, Benjamin Braddock’s mentor in The Graduate, I want to say just one word to your readers. Trees. Charlie Sitzes, Bloomington, IN, US...
...And yet the hulking man preparing to disembark, a figure more reminiscent of John Prescott than John Major, has been called David Cameron’s “philosopher king”....
...“Yes, sir,” replies Braddock. “Are you listening?” “Yes, I am,” says Braddock. A grave pause. “Plastics.” Did anything ever sound so philistine? The facts, however, do not justify our unease....
...Christine Braddock , principal, Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. Professor Michael Brown, vice-chancellor, Liverpool John Moores University. Elisabeth Buggins , chair, NHS West Midlands....
...In Washington state’s San Juan Islands, for example, says John Dunning, a property broker, “no island will sell for less than $3m if it is solely owned”....
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