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...The jury trial will take place this summer after an attempt to stop the case from proceeding was dismissed by a judge at the end of March....
...The governor of Texas is supposed to be appointing judges to this court any day now. It’s new. It’s obviously untested....
...His father, Michael, was an English high court judge; his wife, Anissia, is a judge in France’s council of state. “Everything I do is less important than my wife,” he says, only half-joking....
...“I had so many periods, so many episodes in my life that I would judge as difficult, that this is not on the same scale.”...
...Source: “Dating Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010”, Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, Jason Lennard and Ryland Thomas, Economic History Review (forthcoming)....
...Michael Wickens: To judge by long historical performance large productivity gains are very unlikely. Inflation is likely to make people feel worse off....
...“In the United States of America we do not prosecute people based on politics and we don't cut them a break based on politics either. but that wasn't what happened here,” he said....
...But the choice is a false one, writes Philip Stephens....
...Over months of reporting, the FT has spoken to numerous lawyers, judges, academics and politicians about the state of the UK legal system, as well as to individuals who have had to represent themselves in...
...The indictment was sealed under orders from a federal judge so it was not clear what the charges were or who the target was, the source said, adding that it could be unsealed as early as Monday....
...According to the justice department order appointing the special counsel, Mr Mueller is to investigate whether there were any links between the Russian government and Trump campaign officials, as well as...
...“I know it sounds trite and self righteous but [at the DoJ] you’re representing the people of the United States and the citizens of our country who are entrusting us to administer justice....
...he said in a tweet that referred to his success in appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court....
...According to the UN’s latest forecast, the UK economy will grow by just 1.4 per cent, compared to growth of more than 2 per cent in the United States, Canada, and the European Union as a whole....
...“It makes a great headline to claim that Navinder Sarao caused the flash crash, but the evidence seeping out in the United States suggests otherwise....
...Lahiri skilfully shapes the political aspect of her story, effectively conveys the collision of two worlds, and vividly describes campus life in the United States....
...Gideon Rachman ——————————————- HISTORY Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, Oxford University Press, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when...
...He was getting marching orders from those in charge.”...
...The foreword by Jeanette Winterson, chair of this year’s Forward Prize judges, asserts the power of verse in an age of mass culture....
...Whether this will convince the rating agencies is another matter, though there is little to be gained from setting fiscal policy to maintain a credit rating which even the United States has been unable to...
...In their thought-provoking Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State (Princeton), Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg explain that our ideas about markets and the economy...
...“It’s a rich one in terms of intellectual capital and ability, but I think in order to sustain the species there has to be a greater amount of natural selection.”...
...Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View, by Shirley Neilsen Blum, Thames & Hudson RRP£35 “In order to paint, I need to remain for several days in the same state of mind, and I do not find this in any atmosphere...
...An April 2007 article (The Leadership Team) by Stephen A. Miles and Michael D....
...Post-Lisbon, European leaders underlined the primacy of the nation state by appointing two minor politicians – Herman Van Rompuy, the haiku-writing Belgium prime minister, and Lady Cathy Ashton, a former...
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