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...Bloomberg) News round-up Tiger Global-backed nuclear fusion group secures $1.8bn in funding (FT) Seedrs bought by US group after merger of UK rivals was blocked (FT) Jeffrey Epstein was among those Leon...
...Sherlock Holmes (many writers have taken up metaphorical residence in Baker Street, post-Conan Doyle) and Raymond Chandler’s tarnished knight-errant Philip Marlowe....
...It is too fraught, and not just by Jobs and Holmes. There is a corny bohemian side to it too, redolent of hep-cats with bongos and berets....
...first foreign-run China mutual fund (FT) BHP links up with Bill Gates-backed AI start-up to prospect for metals (FT) Morningstar joins race to provide direct indexing services (FT) Apollo co-founder Leon...
...Fraser Holmes as Ben alternates uncannily between truculent innocence and sly secrecy....
...The Chiffon Trenches, by André Leon Talley, HarperCollins, RRP£20, 304 pages No book this year rivals the insight into 20th-century fashion’s major figures — Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Wintour...
...My first guest would be Donna Leon, whose Inspector Brunetti novels contrast grisly Venetian crimes with glorious Italian cuisine....
...At the same ceremony, Andrew Leon Hanna collected the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author aged under 35....
...In Leon Festinger's famous 1956 book “When Prophecy Fails”, he documents a UFO religion who retrench into their beliefs when a prophesied alien apocalypse fails to materialise. The reason?...
...His powers clearly waning, he lost his title to the unconsidered Leon Spinks in 1978, won it back but then, in 1980, suffered a terrible beating at the hands of Larry Holmes....
...(He cites in particular Leon Uris’s writing on the Warsaw Ghetto.)...
...Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$35 Known for his detective novels set in Havana, Padura has now fictionalised the life of Ramón Mercader, the Spanish revolutionary who, on Stalin’s orders, assassinated Leon...
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