Hints and tips:
...Unfolding over more than seven decades, Matthew Richardson’s The Scarlet Papers (Michael Joseph, £14.99) is a sprawling, ambitious read....
...Industrial accidents were so rife in manufacturing hub Detroit that novelist Erskine Caldwell called it the “eight-finger city”....
...Michael Collins (Catholic)....
...eastward beyond the LDDC’s original area into the Greenwich Peninsula, selected for the building of the Millennium Dome, now the O2 Arena, and the Millennium Village, where the Anglo-Swedish architect Ralph Erskine...
...I heard hints of the Singapore model, in comments made last week by Michael Tien, a pro-Beijing legislator in Hong Kong....
...Erskine was an egotist: those reporting his speeches joked that their printers ran out of the letter “I”....
...When I wrote my play This House for the National Theatre, I was shocked to discover it was this informal agreement between MPs, recognised nowhere in Erskine May — the manual for parliamentary codes of conduct...
...Mullan’s in Royal Avenue, Erskine Mayne’s Close to the City Hall, dusty corridors, Aisles of books, elbow room and no more, Our first pamphlets jostling for attention, Then first slim volumes (if nobody...
...Guests included Michael Brecker on tenor sax and Al Di Meola on electric guitar....
...No more calls for an ever-elusive grand bargain,” wrote Michael Linden, the managing director for economic policy at the CAP....
...The new company had a flying start, particularly since some of Erskine’s long-standing IMG clients, such as Michael Parkinson, the UK entertainer, moved with him....
...“Not only does it appear as if lower taxes are the higher priority for Ryan, but his own record suggests that he’s anything but allergic to deficits,” says Michael Linden, an analyst at the left-leaning...
...On Tuesday, the supercommittee reconvened publicly to hear testimony from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of a bipartisan commission set up last year by the White House, which put forth a sweeping...
...This month Erskine Bowles – the American political figure who co-headed a bipartisan fiscal panel last year – is launching a desperate new crusade....
...“Top-line growth will increasingly have to be driven almost entirely by volume growth,” says Alan Erskine, analyst at UBS....
...Alan Erskine at UBS uses US margarine to illustrate the point....
...Mr Erskine, however, is optimistic the sector will manage the input cost inflation....
...At a hearing on Wednesday of the 18-member bipartisan panel in Washington, Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, the former White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton...
...The rules could be crucial because Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, has ordered an inquiry into claims that Mr Blair “deliberately misled” parliament....
...“Hail flew in showers,/” wrote the anonymous poet of the Anglo-Saxon elegy The Seafarer, quoted here in the translation by Michael Alexander....
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