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...I tried to keep going at his menial job, but was too tormented by the desire to be somewhere, or someone, else. When I played it at my friend August’s house last year, both of us cried....
...His paintings answer TS Eliot’s call to modernism in “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, writes Jackie: “It is impossible to say just what I mean!...
...I’m reporter Ethan Wu here in New York, joined by my boss, Robert Armstrong, who has just pulled up to the office in his brand shiny new Tesla Cybertruck....
...It’s left to his friends, Dima and Jamie, to uncover the truth, and it’s more corrupt and grisly than they can ever have imagined....
...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...profits and large bonuses in the next quarter,” he wrote online....
...In addition to directing the film, Nolan also wrote the screenplay, which he based on the Pulitzer-winning, 700-page Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin....
...“K-S-I! K-S-I! K-S-I!” they chanted. At 10.30pm, after several other YouTubers-cum-boxers had taken their turns in the ring, KSI appeared. He wore a pink outfit and sang the national anthem....
...Caan was resistant to the film’s title, and persuaded the filmmakers to substitute a “k” for the “f” on his copy of the script. “I’ll do Elk, but I will not do Elf,” he said....
...If that was the case, then if South held J♦ and West K♦, then a further diamond lead from West would allow East to beat 9♦ with his Q♦ subsequently....
...At this year’s Mexican Open he hit the umpire’s chair with his racket and yelled a few F-words. The ATP still allowed him to play in the next tournament, so he’ll surely have learnt his lesson....
...If, instead, West tries a spade, again declarer plays low from dummy and beats East’s Q♠ with his K♠. West’s J♠ can now be caught between dummy’s ♠A10....
...Berkshire shares, by contrast, have rallied 18 per cent this year, far outpacing the S&P 500. In 2021, they gained nearly 30 per cent....
...Andrew J Oswald: Probably. David Page: Probably. The OBR calculates that the chancellor has only around £15bn in headroom to meet his new fiscal rules — a historically small margin....
...Sound design and mixing by Sam Giovinco. And special thanks to Arash Massoudi. Cheryl Brumley is the global head of audio. Thanks for listening. We’ll see you next week....
...“Deeply saddened by it,” Cohen says of the situation. “I was his roommate. I was his friend. I am his friend. I’ve been his business partner. I was deeply saddened by it....
...Those points at the very right of the chart are mostly dotcom bubble and pre 2008/9 GFC (great financial crisis) My friend Chris Rossbach, who manages money at J. Stern & Co. texted me this: . . ....
...Introduced last year by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J Markey, it sets out a deeply compelling vision for the shape climate policy should take in the US by deftly integrating science, justice...
...Briefly M&S pre-tax profits dropped 20 per cent to just £67m for the year to the end of March. The retailer said Covid-19 hit profits in March by £52m....
...I think comedy was used for me to make friends, comedy was in my family always.”...
...Bank boards, to borrow from Mary J Blige, want no more drama....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...In Greer’s Less, after the hero turns 50, his former boyfriend, in his late seventies and dying, tells him: “I look back at 50 and think, what the f**k was I so worried about? Look at me now....
...He was reminded by his smartwatch of just what a giant leap he was making — it started vibrating to warn him that his heart rate had been more than 120 for more than four minutes....
...Written by crypto-enthusiast Graeme Moore, the book is, in his words, “for kids, and not for kids”....
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