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...Glamorous attendees included Princess Beatrice and Edward Enninful, outgoing editor of British Vogue....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...For sceptics, an obvious comparison is the case of John Edwards....
...There is fierce competition for that honour; South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, among others, is hard on McCarthy’s heels....
...Opinion: Whatever the final tally, writes Edward Luce, Biden has avoided the shellacking that befell both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, his Democratic predecessors....
...Edward Lei, a partner overseeing investments out of China who had been with Tiger for nearly a decade, has left the firm according to documents seen by the Financial Times....
...China-based partner Edward Lei has left the firm after nearly a decade, while T Rowe Price portfolio manager Dai Wang has been brought in to lead its public stock investments in the country....
...She notes that other famous buyers of his works have included the actor Gregory Peck, studio boss Samuel Goldwyn and playwright Edward Albee....
...Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who was re-elected last week, put it most succinctly: “If we don’t challenge and change the US election system, there will never be another Republican president...
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...Musician Pharrell Williams and stage designer Es Devlin discuss technology and the need to elevate black entrepreneurs; Tilda Swinton, Edward Enninful and National Portrait Gallery director Nicholas Cullinan...
...And it is a cacophonous noise, writes Edward Luce. A divided electorate spells trouble for the US economy, says Mohamed El-Erian....
...Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and one of Mr Trump’s closest allies, also pushed back as did Liz Cheney, the number three Republican in the House, and Mitt Romney...
...Among those pressing for its dissemination was Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, who is now a fierce Trump loyalist....
...It is hard to imagine, say, Lindsey Graham, today’s Republican Senate judiciary chair, posing a similar question. Earlier this week Mr Graham said: “You all hate Trump . . ....
...It struck a desperately needed contrast to the weasel-worded congratulations Trump received from Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and other supposedly hawkish Republicans....
...“This works fine but if you get a high spike of data access requests — right after that law is enacted for example — that could prove incredibly difficult,” said Lindsey Tonsager, partner at global law firm...
...It was Lindsey Graham who most memorably summarised the choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at the close of the 2016 Republican primary elections: did voters want to be shot or poisoned?...
...For the closing item, a fourth operatic mezzo, Kate Lindsey, made a celebrity appearance for a short but imposing solo, replete with organ, from Korngold’s The Constant Nymph. And that encore?...
...You can email the team on swampnotes@ft.com, contact Ed on edward.luce@ft.com and Rana on rana.foroohar@ft.com, and follow them on Twitter at @RanaForoohar and @EdwardGLuce...
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