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...Martin Wolf Larry Diamond, thank you very, very much. Larry Diamond Thank you, Martin. Nice to be with you. [CHURCH BELL RINGING] Martin Wolf That’s St Paul’s Cathedral marking the hour....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...The cost of getting South Africa to stop using coal Coal accounts for about 85 per cent of South Africa’s electricity....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...The moment of inspiration came during a year he spent studying abroad in Glasgow when he watched a YouTube video of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military transport aircraft, which has huge rotors that tilt...
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...But on August 6, the Taliban captured Zaranj, the dusty capital of south-western Nimroz province, with little resistance....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Speaking at the FT’s Global Boardroom event, he said: “I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U.”...
...Further afield, reports of fresh clusters of infection in Wuhan and South Korea are a reminder that a second wave of coronavirus remains a risk....
...When Bell Pottinger was revealed to have advised South Africa’s Gupta brothers on a racially divisive campaign, Bell did not miss the chance to exact revenge....
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...; long-running problems in Venezuela; and a whole host of challenges in a range of middle-level EMs — Pakistan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Ecuador, Bahrain, et al....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Nike is expected to report a rise in fourth-quarter revenue and profit after the closing bell, helped by new releases....
...This year, Bell Pottinger — founded by Sir Tim Bell, one of Mrs Thatcher’s top advisers — collapsed after revelations about its ties to the corrupt Gupta business empire in South Africa....
...(FT) N Korea has no set demands for de-nuclearisation Pyongyang is no longer demanding the removal of US troops from South Korea in return for “complete de-nuclearisation”, according to South Korea’s President...
...Today, I see a couple of Malcolm Gladwells nestling beside some thrillers, as well as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth next to an economics textbook....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...The X3 is a much simpler solution to speed than the only combination rotorcraft currently in production — the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military tilt-rotor....
...She received her first camera at the age of 48 as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law, and within 18 months had persuaded Henry Cole, the founding director of the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A...
...Marian Bell, former member of the MPC I don’t know; there is still a lot to play for, but I fear the worst....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College More pessimistic than 12 months ago I am more pessimistic despite the most recent data being better than many including me expected....
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