Hints and tips:
...TV journalist Gil Peck — a barely disguised version of Peston himself — is tipped off that a small northern bank has run out of money. Peck tells his audience that there is no need to panic....
...But it’s not a surprise because it’s been building up for a while,” says Maria-Elena Lopez, the acting chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic party....
...We have time to talk; to read; and most of all to think — pursuits that flourished under Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu’s drab regime, not least as there was so little else to do....
...The Gorsuch nomination comes at a time of change for Harvard, which is looking for a new dean following Martha Minow’s retirement....
...And the rapidly expanding range of translations available, including some of the most wildly popular contemporary authors in both literary and genre fiction — Elena Ferrante, Haruki Murakami, Stieg Larsson...
...Are the books that we get a chance to read — the novels by Orhan Pamuk or Roberto Bolaño or Elena Ferrante — really the best, most original books written in their languages?...
...Closing the evening was Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in a four-hand performance by piano doyens Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich. The bravos began before they sat down....
...Contenders include front-runner Elena Kagan, the solicitor-general; Leah Ward Sears, a former Georgia chief justice; Janet Napolitano, homeland security secretary; Martha Minow, the Harvard Law School dean...
...Stefano Secco is the Duke, with Jessica Pratt and Elena Mosuc alternating in the role of Gilda. The conductor is James Conlon....
...The Outlander By Gil Adamson Bloomsbury £12.99, 389 pages FT Bookshop price: £10.39 The Heretic’s Daughter By Kathleen Kent Pan Macmillan £14.99, 332 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 The Bird Room By Chris...
...Argentinian actress Elena Roger, who played Evita in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End revival in 2006, takes the role of the diminutive singer....
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