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...Haughton and Alderman write that Slovakia is cursed with “a party system whose only stable characteristic is its instability”....
...A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman...
...Senate Democrats had requested for John Roberts, the chief justice, to testify at Tuesday’s hearing....
...First is Marple: Twelve New Stories (HarperCollins, 11 hrs/29 mins), in which a dozen writers, including Val McDermid, Naomi Alderman and Dreda Say Mitchell, come up with new mysteries for the sharp-eyed...
...She became a chemistry teacher and taught in city schools for 22 years, and met her second husband, John Lewis, at one of them....
...She tends to the severed head of John the Baptist, trimming the blood-matted beard and wrapping the corpse before quitting “the house of defilement” forever to join the followers of Jesus....
...City minister John Glen said that by “breaking down socio-economic barriers to progression, our financial services sector will become more innovative and competitive, and help to level up the UK”....
...The ruling by Sir John Royce, the Tesco trial judge, that “in certain crucial areas . . . the prosecution case was so weak it should not be left for a jury’s consideration” has raised questions as to why...
...Charles II raced horses on Putney Heath, John Locke recounted bowling and hawking, and many a baron and lord were known to duel here....
...For races I still think music is best, but there are exceptions: I found the apocalyptic novel Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel so compelling that a few years ago, I listened to it for more than five...
...Kazuo Ishiguro Author of The Remains of the Day I was recently recommended a novel by an American author I’d not heard of — John Darnielle’s Universal Harvester ....
...Alderman Khalif Rainey declared last year that his city had “become the worst place to live for African-Americans in the entire country”....
...In the Innospec ruling, Justice John Thomas, now the Lord Chief Justice, criticised the SFO for entering into the agreement and the resultant fine, which he called “wholly inadequate”....
...While some say a run-off will weaken him, John Frendreis, a professor of political science at Loyola University, says it is unlikely to change Mr Emanuel’s control of the city council or Chicago’s view of...
...From Prof Geoffrey Alderman....
...John Alderman, author of Sonic Boom, an account of the music industry’s struggles with the internet, said Middelhoff was ahead of his time in grasping the power of disruptive technology....
...In 1578, John Shakespeare, who owned the house on Henley Street, was reduced to mortgaging his wife’s estate; he was later sued for nonpayment....
...Almost nine months of intense diplomacy, led by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, may have hit a wall this week....
...One of her recent predecessors, Sir John Stuttard, counted 1,833 engagements, 763 speeches and 23 countries....
...Completing the list are Naomi Alderman, Jenni Fagan, Adam Foulds, Sarah Hall, Steven Hall, Joanna Kavenna, Ross Raisin, Sunjeev Sahota, Taiye Selasi and Evie Wyld....
...Actuaries, says John Ralfe, a UK-based independent pensions adviser, have “a magic pencil” that can turn a shortfall into a surplus just by changing a key assumption....
...Mr Alderman did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment....
...It was the thinness of the agency’s resources that prompted the Rt Hon Sir John Thomas, one of the judges who presided over a judicial review of the raids, to call for better funding for the agency....
...The SFO is liable to pay all of Vincent Tchenguiz’s costs – and 80 per cent of Robert Tchenguiz’s – arising from their judicial review heard in May, Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Silber wrote in a judgment...
...David Green, SFO director, inherited the Tchenguiz case from his predecessor, Richard Alderman, when he started at the agency in April....
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