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...More often than you’d think, I was told, they’d get B for banana, Q for cucumber and E for X-ray. “It’s a bit rude,” said Jo....
...Matt — I’m sure somebody already suggested Andrew Wylie in the Guardian?...
...Later that month, she tried Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker and, the next year, the Miami Herald’s Julie K Brown, who had uncovered the sweetheart deal Florida prosecutors made with Epstein....
...Wilson looks at forward P/E and forward P/sales ratios, comparing current levels to their post-financial crisis medians. Few look cheap....
...For Lauren and her friends, months of playing around with ChatGPT have convinced them there is more to be gained from generative AI than simply cheating....
...He’s clearly influential with a segment of the party and I think if he wins the seats, I assume he will go on to be quite a force in the next parliament. Lucy FisherWell, I’m slightly inspired by you....
...Dall-E is spelled D-A-L-L dash E. It’s a portmanteau of Wall-E, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali. And this software is part of a new trend in digital technology called AI-generated art....
...And, lo and behold, there are these billion-dollar franchises built out of these minor Marvel characters, like Guardians of the Galaxy....
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...State of Mind”), Jay-Z (“D’Evils”), Big L (“The Enemy”) and The Notorious B.I.G. (“Kick in the Door”), he has made a habit of producing their best songs....
...The trail had run dry, and with no clear next step, so had our investigation. As far as we can tell, SBF’s last League of Legends game was on September 10, 2021....
...Next winter’s opening of a new 84-room, four-star, Le Wood Hotel & Spa, ought to raise the bar, however....
...There’s a grand walnut-wood staircase, its ornately designed railing camouflaging an intertwined B and E (Basile was known for his clever covert signatures), and – serendipitously, notes Polizzi – several...
...If the bondholders call in their debt, M&B could sell some of its 1,356 securitised pubs (last valued at c£4bn) to pay off c£1.7bn of notes and c£0.3bn of MTM swaps....
...Those no longer visible include the one we used a few weeks ago of Mr Moulding sharing a jeroboam of Dom Pérignon with some friends and/or non-executive directors....
...However, as in the case of Lufthansa and IAG we switch from an EV/EBITDA to a P/B valuation....
...“We were friends instantly,” Jeffress recalls. Trump, he says, told him: “Robert, I may not read my Bible as much as I should, but I’m a great leader.” “And it’s true,” Jeffress adds....
...“Prior to COVID-19, M&B had built a consistent LFL record and EBITDA growth....
...Its most recent instalment, co-created with Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton and American R&B singer Gabriella Wilson, aka H.E.R., was released at London Fashion Week earlier this month....
...I’ve watched several friends hit heart trouble in their fifties and take several steps back. Looking old is bad, but feeling old is worse. I’m aware of the draining of the life-force....
...There was also a meeting of the government’s Independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (a.k.a SPI-B) on March 12....
...(FT) How populism will heat up the climate fight (FT) Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos (NYT) And finally, the answers to our Davos marketing slogan quiz are: A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2, E-5...
...K is for KYC — see “accountability”. L is for Luke Wilson — a humble man using a luxury exit coin to supply fresh water in Africa. M is for money printing — which is exactly what crypto is doing....
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...“Friends of mine read the bloody Guardian and I dare not mention the ‘B word’, but I’ll be all right with you,” says one. But it has also provoked a media backlash and unsettled his board....
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