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...Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of state, last week said the US had “done war games with the Brits to think a little bit about scenarios in the Indo-Pacific”....
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
...UBS has named Kurt Anthony head of its consumer and retail group in the Americas. He joined the Swiss bank last year from Barclays, where he focused on apparel, speciality retail and packaged food....
...Later, the German artist Kurt Schwitters wrote them a letter: “I hear you are trading art for pots....
...“Our interest was not in it as a Kurt Cobain biopic,” Leith says of the film. “It was in its tone, and its everydayness.”...
...At the heart of the criminal investigation into Kurz’s activities are allegations that, starting in 2016, he encouraged close ally Thomas Schmid, who then headed the finance ministry, to illicitly funnel...
...Friends in high places Real estate mogul Harlan Crow, whose close ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have placed his business into the spotlight, has spent millions wielding influence over Texas...
...“The mayor’s done a really nice job of creating this snowball effect for us to take a look at it seriously,” says Kurt MacAlpine, chief executive of Canadian asset manager CI Financial....
...Give the New York producer a set of pirate shanties or Kurt Weill songs and he would assemble an all-star cast to perform them....
...The design that changed everything for me was Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia....
...Among the uses forecast by Thomas Edison for his newly invented phonograph in 1878 was recording the last words of a dying person....
...On Sunday, the IOC said its president, Thomas Bach, had hosted a video call with Peng....
...Letter in response to this article: Kurz loses his lustre as Austria’s chancellor / From Kurt Bayer, Vienna, Austria...
...Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Helen Grime and Nico Muhly are in the mix, each contributing a mini-opera, adding up to about 45 minutes for the set of eight....
...There are fascinating reflections on German literature — Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Hans Fallada, Thomas Mann and Walter Kempowski’s war novel All for Nothing — as well as exquisite descriptions of the writing...
...Smart reads Fresh out of luck Losses brewed from Luckin Coffee’s staggering accounting fraud were just the beginning of Thomas Gottstein’s troubles as he took charge of Credit Suisse....
...Call Thomas Mann to the dock for Doctor Faustus. Didn’t that “distort” the lives of Nietzsche and Mahler? Never Look Away is a pop Doctor Faustus. That accounts for its power to enthral....
...“It is literally not his business,” said Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution....
...Kurt Volker, former US special envoy to Ukraine, told the inquiry he was unaware of links between military aid and investigations sought by the president....
...Thomas Stanley features prominently in Shakespeare’s Richard III, in which he crowns Henry VII on the battlefield at Bosworth....
...The movement’s prominent observers included the “silent” “slender, almost transparent” poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and novelist Thomas Mann....
...Kurt Bock, BASF chief executive, said operating earnings for the Ludwigshafen-based group rose 16 per cent to €1.8bn, as “solid volume growth” was supplemented by “significantly higher sales prices” for...
...As with Kurt Vonnegut, a writer to whom Kobek is conspicuously indebted, humour and outrage go hand in hand, though the mood here is more astringent than bittersweet....
...“Books are more engaging than a piece of art,” says Kurt Thometz, a private librarian based in New York....
...The Metropolitan Police said two of the four killed were police constable Keith Palmer, aged 48, and Kurt Cochran, a 54-year-old American tourist from Utah....
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