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...Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...guns, which he keeps docked at his Newport Beach, California, home....
...City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University by Nicholas Dirks (Cambridge University Press)A former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, reveals how administrators, faculty and...
...Sheikha Al Mayassa tapped Whitney Robinson, a former editor-in-chief of US Elle Decor (and a classmate of hers at Duke University) to curate the CP Club project, entrusting him with making an atmosphere...
...My favourite University of Chicago business school professor Luigi Zingales muses on the stakeholder/shareholder debate 50 years after Milton Friedman wrote his famous essay....
...powers in the Middle East”, hinting at tensions over whether the kingdom should formalise relations with the Jewish state....
...like Florida, Texas and California....
...he muses. The light in his eyes suggests he’ll find a way. The Prix Pictet exhibition “Hope” is at the V&A Museum, London, November 14-December 8; vam.ac.uk....
...(FT, Al Jazeera) Keep up with the important business, economic and political stories in the coming days with the FT’s Week Ahead. Click to subscribe here....
...A graduate of Goldsmiths University, it is here that Fabio created one of his major works of art, Dataflags (exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum)....
...He is a prominent member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant Islamist group based in Southeast Asia with ties to al-Qaeda....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Which is why Buchheit et al were looking at the bond — to generate strategies for Cyprus to squash holdouts if it ever planned a sovereign debt restructuring....
...(FT) Food for thought Robo-art Ken Goldberg, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses why robots may well be able to produce variations on pre-existing art but they still cannot...
...New York attorney-general Eric Schneiderman has urged Mr Cuomo to give his state office authority over such cases, to solve the “crisis of confidence” in the state’s criminal justice system....
...General v specialised MBA The majority of business schools offer a general MBA programme....
...Joining from the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, the Frenchman was educated at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts et Metiers and received his PhD in civil engineering from Stanford University...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...I’m crawling through this ET-like maze of plastic sheeting.” He waves his arms around to portray the scene and gives a wide-eyed, high-pitched laugh, somewhere between a giggle and a whinny....
...“If I could get the money, I would like to appoint a writer in residence,” he muses, “to think about creativity as a process in itself.”...
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...University Law School....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...When the mood relaxes, it becomes hard to detect an original tone amid references to Britten, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Weill et al....
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