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...Butler was confident that ultimately, the switchover “will get done”....
...“In addition to the great performers that we have on The Simpsons, there are guys that are not family names,” Cartwright adds, before reeling off a list that includes her former mentor Daws Butler (Huckleberry...
...When TDR acquired 332 pubs from Mitchells & Butlers in 2010, the firm’s executives visited every single one, according to people close to the deal....
...Pub group Mitchells & Butlers has agreed new liquidity facilities totalling £250m and waivers on its existing financing arrangements to help it through the crisis....
...Staff are dressed as butlers and housekeepers, which puts at ease those who were raised by servants but may have a very different effect on everyone else....
...While the girls rolled on our lawn, the chef Ben Taylor worked in the kitchen and the butler Stephen Cunningham brought us cold glasses of Chablis, scallops with hazelnuts and pancetta, local beef, and a...
...Chart of the week This is one that was also chosen as the chart of the week by Morrigan Simpson-Marran of the Alberta School of Business....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has appointed David W Blass as a partner in the Washington DC office....
...lucy.kellaway@ft.com Twitter: @lucykellaway Letters in response to the article: Virtue signalling on the sun lounger / From Stephen Simpson Are we wasting our time? / From Andrew Grand...
...Camilla Akers-Douglas, Shaftesbury, Dorset Bark, by Lorrie Moore It’s been 15 years since Moore’s short story collection Birds of America....
...Jansch, Simpson has noted, was “a magical man . . . occasionally a shambolic man”....
...The Aufidius of Gerard Butler, a Volscian leader with a Scottish snarl, takes the last act’s Coriolanus – self-exiled by Rome’s rejection – to his gleaming, perfidious bosom....
...But it is also compelling, given the number of women who excel at the art: Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, Claire Keegan, Ruth Thomas and Helen Simpson all follow in the footsteps of the great Katherine...
...Simpson agrees: “Our high-net-worth clients haven’t been affected by the recession.”...
...Viewers are treated to a butler, a meal, a super-comfy chair and even “Gold Class” branded popcorn....
...“Every man’s work …is always a portrait of himself,” wrote Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh. A century later and Butler might have added that work gives women satisfaction too....
...Still a teenager, he would then work for two other major bike makers, Claud Butler and Holdsworth....
...Fleur Butler, leader of Richmondshire council, praised the new arrangement: “It gives both councils stability and provides better value for money for council tax payers.”...
...Over the years, as she continued with her songs, working with everyone from Patti LaBelle to Jessica Simpson and Sharon Stone, and as the cancer research charity grew by leaps and bounds, press interest...
...Andrew Simpson, Olympic sailor. Liz Smith, actress. Jamie Staff, Olympic cyclist. David Stone, Paralympic cyclist. Geraint Thomas, Olympic cyclist....
...The songs themselves are forgettable, in some cases even while you listen to them: many reminded me of musical numbers from The Simpsons, only without the self-awareness....
...They preceded, by a few years, the opportunities offered by the 1944 Butler Education Act....
...The technologically utopian The Jetsons was overtaken by The Simpsons, in which Homer Simpson grumbles about the mishaps in the nuclear power plant where he has the misfortune to work as a safety inspector...
...Lorrie Moore, author of the bestselling collection Birds of America and one of her country’s talented new generation, has said that “as the commercial slick short story has largely died out, the stories...
...At 102, the former butler of Joan Crawford - who served Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin - still drives, lives on his own and twice a week attends church in his home city of Tulsa, Oklahoma....
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