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...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...“It reminded me of the whole process of gentrification, and how things are just bulldozed and renovated, with no real consideration for what was there beforehand,” says Leroy D Bean, a poet on the trip....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...“Families from the nearby embassies like four or five-bedroom apartments, which new-build options rarely do,” says Holly Butler of agent Garton Jones....
...Masculinity, as the influential gender theorist Judith Butler has contended, is a “performance” that becomes accepted as reality through the same shared actions and behaviours....
...Other views Nick Butler — Ukraine and the shifting balance of power Nick Butler — Wanted: long-distance high-voltage grids that can link continents Colby Smith — Mexico: Investment grade no more?...
...Nick Butler interprets Qatar’s decision to quit Opec as a sign of the once-powerful cartel’s waning influence. It has become a price-taker, with no control over the market it once ruled....
...Roger Pielke Jr of the University of Colorado formulated the “iron law” of climate change: when societies are asked to choose between economic growth or cutting emissions, they always choose growth....
...They ended up working as a cook-and-butler duo. But then her father was interned on the Isle of Man, along with other male “German-speaking aliens”....
...Another view Nick Butler - The real risks of the falling oil price Quote of the week “This is to go back to the past and not to see the future.” — Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical...
...When the founding “six” gathered in Messina in 1955, the chancellor Rab Butler dismissed the proceedings as no more than “some archaeological diggings” in an ancient Sicilian town....
...Obama eventually replaced the rug in 2010 with one bearing quotations from four former presidents and Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...In their way, Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr have helped remind the rest of us about how we can — and will — defeat the terrorists who have struck recently in places such as Paris and San...
...Stein, a former editor at the Paris Review who used the same technique with Edie, her biography of the model Edie Sedgwick, weaves together the words of family members, business partners, butlers, lovers...
...The end result, explains Loren, “is dearer to me than any successful film because it takes me back to the nerve-wracking days which came to a climax in the birth of Carlo, Jr, the greatest joy of my life...
...In May 1883, for instance, Pierpont Morgan gave his butler an 1882 Frodsham gold pocket watch as a wedding present....
...“It’s about the first African-American butler in the White House, and it spans Eisenhower to Reagan.”...
...He is expected to retain the management team, including boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. Mr Blavatnik, who owns a property in Kensington Palace Gardens, divides his time between London and New York....
.... £23.95 Jeroboams, £25 Majestic Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference 2004 Champagne Very aggressive and racy Duval-Leroy blend dominated by Chardonnay from some pretty smart villages....
...This topped Mr Breguet’s effort by having 20 complications, but was eclipsed in January 1933 when Henry Graves Jr, an obsessive American horolophile, took delivery of the Supercomplication timepiece ordered...
...Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr, is, like Downey Jr himself, a talkative charmer with a strong hedonistic streak....
...Win Butler, the lead singer, looked at times like a sweaty refugee from the 1950s in his shirt, braces and polite manner....
...and 1960s, thanks to Morris Lapidus’s over-the-top Fontainebleu hotel and celebrity residents and visitors including mobster Meyer Lansky and “Rat Pack” swingers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr...
...Alas, you cannot make your way to the home of JR Ewing, the star of the television show Dallas, as he really never lived here....
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