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...The cover is borrowed from Jacques-Louis David’s handsome painting, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art (admission free). I loathed Ridley Scott’s disappointing film, a catastrophe!...
...Our first stop is the park’s newest monument, “The Embrace”, which commemorates the partnership of Martin Luther King Jr, and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who first crossed paths in Boston in the early...
...But the future of the Orioles has been a source of speculation particularly over the past year, when younger son Louis filed a lawsuit against John and their mother, Georgia, over control of the team....
...That’s what John Neal, the chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, told the FT yesterday....
...A difficult state of mind to achieve is the one John Keats described as “negative capability”. This is a tolerance and even active preference for nuance....
...Designer John Galliano’s collections have a large part in that....
...As always, email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com. Weekly highlights Remember Su Zhu and Kyle Davies?...
...As well as Hassett, John Paulson, Jeff Yass and Scott Bessent, the top hedge fund managers, might be in the mix for senior economic roles....
...But in its gripping account of Mitchel’s audacious escape in the outback, where he evades capture up to the very last minute, its models are the adventure novels of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson...
...John Tamberlane (vice-chair): Wouldn’t it be easier just to go out and buy a bank? Shay: We looked at that but the prices are too expensive and we’d be stuck with all their legacy issues....
...sessions with John Coltrane. Thiele’s son, Bob Jr, a long-term Valentine collaborator, now heads the rebooted label which has co-produced this album....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...For those of you leaving: we’re very sorry to be taking this step and John and I are fully responsible for the decisions leading up to it . .....
...Where there was nowhere to sleep, Scott created magical Indian-style tented encampments in romantic ruins....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...The host and organiser of the evening is Scott Atlas, Trump’s former Covid-19 adviser, who was a lockdown sceptic....
...The other was when I did well at Indianapolis in 1966 [Stewart had to retire from the lead with nine laps to go], and the Texan, John Mecom Jr, who owned the team I drove for, was so pleased with my position...
...Cate Blanchett, another Best Actress nominee, bucked the trend in a liquid blue top and long black skirt from Louis Vuitton....
...This very morning, the next Fay Weldon is probably crafting an advertorial for Louis Vuitton. simon.kuper@ft.com...
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
...Bjarke Ingels, Ma Yansong and Ricardo Bofill Jr offer their solutions for the crisis in affordable housing....
...When St Louis-born soprano Julia Bullock was 10 years old, her singing teacher explained that her vocal powers would not mature until she reached her late thirties....
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...In 1964, he organised the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale and brought along Johns, Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, all of whom...
...“She is not afraid to let people have it if they don’t get in line, but she understands each member of her caucus,” said Scott Peters, a House Democrat from California....
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