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...In a wood-panelled library of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the artist Kerry James Marshall is reminiscing about his first encounter with art....
...In the mid-1970s, Bley and her second husband, the trumpeter Michael Mantler, founded WATT Records....
...He coined the phrase G-Zero to describe the collapse of international co-operation in a world that is meant to be guided by the meetings of powerful countries, in the G20 or G7....
...She also placed great emphasis on Monroe’s relationship with Charlie Chaplin Jr and Edward G Robinson Jr, who both became her lovers....
...I do get my roots tinted at my local hairdresser called George G Hair and Beauty in Queensway....
...after the 1965 Watts Uprising....
...One good read RIP to Charlie Watts, whose drumming was an example to investors: he kept it simple and focused on what he was good at. Listen to him kill it on Some Girls, and be happy....
...“Santa G” in 2022 is a whirl of organic cafés, healthy-eating restaurants, concept stores and the kind of services required by a certain kind of expat (ie, lawyers, caterers, private yoga instructors)....
...P&G has come under fierce criticism from some investors over its role in deforestation to make products such as toilet paper, even as it has pledged to fund tree restoration projects....
...Start with the appointment last week of John Kerry to the new role of climate envoy....
...It really is a beast, with 450 watts of speaker power, capable of filling a big, big space with quality sound....
...David Cobham, professor of economics at Heriot-Watt University: It will continue to lag behind, and most households will feel hard up, as austerity and Brexit come home to roost and the government has no...
...It is due to be reset to range from A to G again from March 2021....
...M&G isn’t raising new money — Prudential shareholders will in effect get an M&G share for each group share they hold....
...David Cobham, professor of economics, Heriot-Watt University: Poor Covid-19 management (late decision-making, lack of support for business and workers) plus Brexit suggest the UK will lag....
...While most guests focused on comments by the likes of John Kerry about Iran or Professor William Nordhaus on climate change economics, I was intrigued by the announcement that Amundi is soon to launch an...
...The bar makes a killer snake-fruit G & T....
...But it neatly describes the preoccupations of Kerry James Marshall, worked out on canvas over four decades, in ambitious, large-scale depictions of African-American life....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The heroic effort to be seen pulsates through Kerry James Marshall’s life project....
...The former US diplomat, appointed in 2014 by then US secretary of state John Kerry to head the Middle East process in Jerusalem, had previously spent 29 years at McKinsey in London, New Delhi and Dubai....
...But now, with the aid of a £2.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the studios where George Frederic Watts and his wife Mary worked have also been restored and opened to the public by the Watts Gallery...
...In 1964, a year before riots erupted in Watts, the Marshalls rented a house further north in South Central....
...And inside an hour Kerry was toast. Hopefully Clinton will block the deplorable Trump and by about 6 am London time we will have confirmation of this....
...At BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, chief investment strategist Ewen Cameron Watt was attempting to reassure clients alarmed by tumbling stock prices across Europe....
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