Hints and tips:
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Lakecia Benjamin draws on the intense wellspring of classic John Coltrane and adds the sonics and history of her main instrument, alto sax....
...The key loophole in that text was that, A, the language wasn’t binding, and B, there was no clear date....
...John McLaughlin is reminiscing about his first encounter with Miles Davis, just two days after the English guitarist moved from London to New York in 1969....
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....
...There is another towering figure in Mr Vance’s life: his father, Cyrus Vance Sr, who served as president Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state from 1977 to 1980, among other top Washington posts....
...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
...Ford Sr wasn’t alive, of course, in the 1960s....
...Agfa Graphics Ltd Gerald Jennings Chair, West & North Yorkshire Chamber Paul Corcoran Chief Executive, Agent Mike Smith Managing Director, Open Media Peter Emery CEO, Electricity North West Neil Davis...
...Mr Johnson took no part in the formulation of the ERG document, while Mr Davis has remained aloof from the process....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Bias that places square pegs in round holes / From John B Griffiths, Seattle, WA, US Don’t allow ambition to cloud our talent judgment / From Sir...
...“She must have a plan B,” said Anna Soubry, a pro-EU former trade minister....
...Sidley Austin, a law firm, has hired John Butler as a partner in New York. He joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm, has hired Hendrik Röhricht as a corporate partner....
...What is becoming ever clearer is that many Brexiters have no Plan B, as Chris Wilkins, Mrs May’s former speech writer, illustrated this week....
...The Chequers prospectus is being lambasted by hard Brexiters such as David Davis and by pro-Europeans like Peter Mandelson....
...Mr Davis could not be contacted for comment....
...John Reynolds, a partner at Davis Polk in Washington, said he had been withholding judgment as to whether the administration’s position on China trade would affect Cfius....
...Other 20th-century leaders of these countries — Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, John Major — had a different visceral experience: poverty. They too knew in their bones that government mattered....
...David Davis, the Brexit secretary, dismissed speculation about a Brexit “domino effect”, saying weeks after the EU referendum: “I don’t think anyone is likely to follow us down this route.”...
...But threats to global recovery remain, and Martin argues we should follow the John F Kennedy maxim: “the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”...
...“They might as well not bother,” says the FT’s John Gapper: diesel is dying and the only question is how long it will take....
...Scott adds technical edge to the plaintive melancholy of Miles Davis, and here found the perfect foil with alto saxophonist Logan Richardson....
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