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...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...Burford got out of its funding arrangement with Donziger et al after it had already put up $4m. “Chevron” had been part of its portfolio....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...“Congress still needs to reach a long-term solution for Dreamers in the United States — including a pathway to citizenship,” said Cory Gardner, the Republican senator from Colorado....
...“I realised that it’s not just me: it’s systemic . There are larger forces at play,” says Mr Thomas, who is black....
...Sheltered behind its Great Firewall, China is creating an astonishingly vibrant digital economy with hair-raising disregard for the belief in individual agency that Keen holds dear....
...“I don’t think we’ve found a word to describe it yet. But it doesn’t feel like a V or a W.” Three factors are critical to any recovery....
...Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sergey Brin, John Galt, Jeff Bezos, Travis Kalanick and others robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...and Al Jazeera....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...As Simon Roberts, an anthropologist and director of Stripe Partners, an innovation agency in London, puts it: “Businesses often look on innovations as ‘new things’....
...Lahiri skilfully shapes the political aspect of her story, effectively conveys the collision of two worlds, and vividly describes campus life in the United States....
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...Gideon Rachman ——————————————- HISTORY Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, Oxford University Press, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when...
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...“Because of its unique location, and its charter as a new international centre of learning and research, Kaust is positioned to have a dramatic impact on the kingdom and the world,” says Mr Chameau....
...Other names who have been mentioned include Bill Burns, the current number two at the state department, Nicholas Burns, a former senior diplomat, and Thomas Donilon, the national security adviser....
...Originally published in 2006 in two separate volumes, they are here united in one book. Collect it while you can....
...However, BNY is surely a United States entity. The rest of the process, without question takes place in the United States.”) So you can start to see why you might want to look beyond even BNY....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...French et al, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (SLR), Princeton University Press, 2010....
...accelerate its uranium enrichment and ballistic missile programs....
...than a head of state....
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