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...It has also exposed the thinness of Britain’s armed forces, which defence secretary Ben Wallace has described as “hollowed out”....
...It retains two of its founding members — first violinist Marianne Henry and violist Diedra Lawrence....
...It’s desperate stuff,” said Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of War Studies at King’s College London and a nuclear weapons expert. “The west will not change its policy because of that speech.”...
...Finally, do read the always excellent David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine on the west’s responsibility for its historic carbon emissions — and the case for climate reparations....
...When you think of those 25,000 dead, any other system would have just given up,” says Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary. “But they’re just grinding....
...Sir Lawrence Freedman, doyen of British strategic studies, told me in my podcast this week that he thought Putin’s implied threat was to use strategic weapons — that is, the intercontinental missiles that...
...The poet Wallace Stevens wrote: “You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight” in Arrival at the Waldorf. It sounds romantic but, of course, you cannot touch moonlight....
...Aqua Blu left Bali six days before I boarded it, with a send-off lecture by Lawrence Blair, the documentary filmmaker whose five-part Ring of Fire introduced Britain to the powerful mysteries of Indonesia...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Employee ownership is not without some risk / From John Boothman, St Lawrence, Jersey, CI...
...The towering Ramsay must have enjoyed seeing Lahr played by her own diminutive client, Wallace Shawn, in Stephen Frears’ 1987 movie about Orton, Prick Up Your Ears. If she saw it, that is....
...Next was Generation X, which offered the stylish alienation of Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland and David Foster Wallace....
...Kirk Russell Managing Director, Immensa Management Matt Ford CEO and Co-founder, Pariti Tony Hayden Solutions Architect, Aptos Matthew Wilson Director, Loyalty Card Francis Toye CEO, Unilink Lawrence...
...Harriet Harman MP Chair, Joint Committee on Human Rights Lord Woolf Baroness Hamwee Baroness Prosser Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon Baroness Royall of Blaisdon Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws Lord...
...Read Rachel Spence’s full interview with Phyllida Barlow at ft.com/barlow Philip Guston Gallerie dell’Accademia Philip Guston and The Poets explores how DH Lawrence, WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot...
...sea” and DH Lawrence’s ship “faltering and lapsing on the pink flood”; between the self-referential giant hand tracing a pencil mark in “The Line” and Yeats’ “images that yet/Fresh images beget” in “Byzantium...
...In the 1940s he began painting lyrical word-as-image inscriptions, defamiliarising letters to make us see anew — a breath away from the art-and-language innovations of 1960s conceptualists Lawrence Weiner...
...To be sure there are precedents for Mr Trump in American politics — such as Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, and Huey Long....
...Those shareholders include former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack and former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, both of whom serve on Lending Club’s board and stand to see their stakes valued...
...Rett Wallace of Triton Research said: “It shouldn’t be surprising....
...“Lending Club is the first one of the large marketplace companies to go public,” said Rett Wallace of Triton Research....
...Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...Former US treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has lauded the title, which argues for a shift away from traditional debt instruments, as “the most important economics book of 2014”....
...that fracking will bring down energy bills and create jobs thoroughly discredited, the government is now resorting to straight up bribery to sell their deeply unpopular fracking policy,” said Greenpeace’s Lawrence...
...They remind us that though an unmediated response to reality is unachievable, such works as these remain the “necessary fictions” (in the poet Wallace Stevens’s phrase) that help us negotiate the territory...
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