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...Now in my fifties, I’m determined to change the system for the next generation....
...She namechecks “Iain M Banks’s Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000...
...Even folks who have been reluctant, they are shoulder to shoulder with him,” says Brian Ballard, a Florida-based lobbyist close to Trump....
...I’m not trapped in one culture,” he explains. “This open-mindedness helped me to connect to so many different influences, to find the right balance between cultures and civilisations.”...
...“To me, it looks like a diamond, it sparkles like a diamond and makes me feel like I’m wearing a diamond,” says the 36-year-old writer and actor, who lives in New York....
...I’m sure a psychologist would have much to say about a graffiti artist who decides not to desecrate his personal space with his own signature....
...But I’m afraid this column can offer the grumblers no succour this week, as it begins with three novelists who comfortably fit that description....
...There’s a lot of open fire going on in the kitchen, so I ordered a grilled lobster, though I confess I’m fonder of the steamed ones....
...The machine learning practice helps lawyers with a range of problems such as big investigations, M&A transactions and intellectual property strategy, he explains....
...“The style used to be: I’m a federalist. I’m a constitutionalist. I’m a Harvard lawyer. Now it’s: I’m an asshole to the libs.”...
...“I’m an extensive sceptic, no God, no King, no nationality”, he told his novelist friend John Galsworthy in 1900....
...Her mother, Margaret, grew up in Shanghai (her older brother is novelist JG Ballard) and is an art historian, who went on to be the first female director of the Soane Museum....
...Although I don’t know its designer, I’m also very taken with the tower looming above Tony Roma’s steakhouse on the Avenida del Mediterráneo, slightly sinister with curved corners and curious, eye-shaped...
...asked Gordon Ballard, an adviser to the oil and gas industry....
...You may recognise the voice as belonging to the actor David Tennant and, by the end of his reading of J.M....
...Their seeds are packaged into paper envelopes by a Ballard Brown seed packing machine that dates back more than 120 years (if you like old machines, you can see it in action on the Real Seeds YouTube channel...
...Also out today are updates from Moneysupermarket, discounter B&M Retail, builders' merchant Travis Perkins, estate agent Foxtons, ad agency M&C Saatchi and results from hobby group Games Workshop....
...UBS has appointed Nestor Paz-Galindo global co-head of M&A; Philipp Beck head of M&A for the Emea region; and David Descoteaux and Solon Kentas co-heads of M&A for the Americas region....
...I’m gasping for air just thinking about it. We could easily see multiple deaths.” Cool, 47, is concerned that some members of the commercial parties on K2 aren’t up to it....
...Transfer Market Kellie Leonard, Nike's first chief of diversity and inclusion, departed the role this week as the company grapples with perceived inequities among its own staff....
...I also like JG Ballard: somebody once published a compendium of the books in Ballard’s own library and he used to have a medical textbook on car crashes, which is black and white and not as voyeuristic as...
...Melissa Prince Chief client value and innovation officer Ballard Spahr After practising as a lawyer and then legal project manager, Melissa Prince moved to Ballard Spahr in 2015 to create her 20-strong...
...The overall sensation for me is that of somehow shopping while I’m asleep. Did JG Ballard write a novel about this? He must have . . . because it’s somehow becoming a real thing....
...“It’s a big deal,” said Mr Kellie-Smith. “I’m not sure you’re going to have a copy and paste of equities but there are a lot of similarities.”...
...“I’m not able to be rushed this fast,” he stammered. “It makes me nervous.”...
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