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...Last week Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth urged the Federal Aviation Administration, the aviation safety regulator, not to certify the Max 7 . . ....
...British academic Ben Jacob tells another unorthodox story in The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain’s Rarest Flowers (John Murray Press £20)....
...Video credits: ‘Litanies’ by Julian Anderson, performed by Alban Gerhardt with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)....
...John McCormick, who co-runs Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, is leaving the business, the WSJ reported. That makes Joseph Dowling the unit’s sole head....
...Which leaves Tammy Duckworth, the US senator from Illinois and army veteran; and Susan Rice, who was Barack Obama’s national security adviser and UN ambassador. Ms Duckworth is a tough character....
...In an interview with Fox News ahead of the convention, Senator Tammy Duckworth — who had been touted as a possible running mate for Mr Biden — twice refused to defend the former president....
...John Blakey, founder of the Trusted Executive Foundation, says that the work of being a coach can be intense....
...Otherwise, here’s what I’ve been reading: My colleague John Gapper’s fine take on the history of antitrust regulation and why we need to rethink it for the digital age....
...What a contemporary described as Powell’s “first grown-up affair” was with Nina Hamnett, an artist and model painted by Sickert, Augustus John and Roger Fry....
...John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona and Vietnam war hero, criticised the move to use Twitter to issue what he described as an “unclear” statement....
...As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Books and Birds, by Alex Preston and Neil Gower, Corsair, RRP£25, 208 pages Peter Stothard is author of ‘The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher’ (Duckworth) Illustration...
..., the message to Vladimir Putin has been that Russia can invade its neighbours, threaten US allies, intensify its cyber attacks and interfere with foreign elections with very little repercussion,” said John...
...The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain’s Master Map Maker and His Secrets, by Alan Ereira, Duckworth Overlook RRP£25, 304 pages Alexandra Harris is author of ‘Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English...
...The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, by Peter Stothard, Duckworth, RRP£20/The Overlook Press, RRP$29.95, 304 pages John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor...
...However, the Democrats picked up one senate seat in Illinois, where Tammy Duckworth was elected with 54 per cent of the vote....
...In 2008 and 2012, John McCain and Mitt Romney each gave nationally televised concession speeches shortly after midnight eastern time. And what if we have no winner by the end of the night?...
...When Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes failed to predict the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the two great economists reacted differently....
...The Newfoundland Chocolate Company in nearby Duckworth Street was set up in a basement in 2008 by a no-previous-experience geographer and neuroscientist couple, Brent and Christina Smith....
...Retailer John Lewis will charge a £2 fee for click-and-collect orders under £30....
...John Gapper is an FT columnist and author of ‘A Fatal Debt’ (Duckworth)...
...The Duckworth Lewis Method will tour the UK in September, www.dlmethod.co.uk...
...John Arlott, writing a diary of the season (Cricket Journal 2) was convinced the England selectors would have no problem “picking 11 men to beat India – that could be done four times over . . . ”....
...But right now, as John Maynard Keynes said in a similar crisis in the 1920s: “no one has a gospel”....
...A Delicate Truth, by John Le Carré, Viking, RRP£18.99/ RRP$28.95, 336 pages Fifty years ago John Le Carré wrote The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, the novel that excoriated the ethical ambiguity and betrayal...
...John Gapper is an FT columnist. His financial novel ‘A Fatal Debt’, is published in the UK by Duckworth...
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