Hints and tips:
...It’s not just onstage that women lack agency: Siddons’ maid, Patti, is sexually assaulted by Kemble; a female fan is locked in the asylum by her husband....
...How many of 2016’s “thick and thinners” will waver during the next nine months of “lawfare”?...
...Upgrading Detroit’s credit rating in April, S&P praised its financial management since 2013, saying “Detroit’s financial position and economic condition are the strongest they’ve been in decades”....
...Walt Hart, a lead chemicals researcher at S&P, said ethylene use rates, the amount converted to new materials such as plastic, had fallen to their lowest level in four decades because of “a gross overbuild...
...Tech M&A spending fell to a decade low last year, according to data from S&P Global....
...The S&P is off 3 per cent. That’s not a sell-off, right? That’s caution....
...But all this takes time, Nicole Miller, Biomimicry 3.8’s managing director, told me....
...Longueurs included a tedious plod through “Justify My Love”’s cod-mystical remix as “The Beast Within.”...
...“I would say they probably represent the best opportunity to ramp up by inventory with a deal with a private,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...Jon Hart, a construction procurement expert at law firm Pinsent Masons, said the majority of contracts north of Birmingham had likely not yet come to market, “so pulling the plug may have minimal impact”...
...All of which seems to run counter to a statement he made in his earlier book, 2006’s Culture Clash: “I prefer staying in the shadows.”...
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...Major League Baseball’s efforts to speed up play are paying off by appealing to younger fans, says FT contributing columnist Patti Waldmeir. Here’s how....
...The association was cemented when veteran outlaw Willie Nelson duetted on her follow-up album, 2017’s All American Made....
...*The paper’s co-authors are Einav Hart and Maurice Schweitzer. As Eric told me, he would not be a very good dual promoter if he had failed to mention them....
...“Dogs Love Christmas Too” is a novelty song that turns the clock back to the days of Patti Page’s “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?”. It’s not for life, but it’ll do for Christmas. ★★★☆☆...
...Gove contacted Simone Finn, Number 10’s deputy chief of staff (and a close friend and former partner), to ask for five minutes alone with Johnson before or after the PMQs prep....
...“On 7 December a further referral relating to the incident[s] was made and an investigation was launched. Inquiries are ongoing. There have been no arrests.”...
...was being treated as a confidence issue despite reports otherwise, and Tory MPs who did not back the government will face disciplinary action, according to Pippa Crerar of the Guardian who shared No 10’s...
...The rest of the 1922’s executive committee is now made up of a dozen Tory MPs: Aaron Bell, Miriam Cates, Jo Gideon, Richard Graham, Chris Green, Robert Halfon, Sally-Ann Hart, Andrew Jones, Tom Randall,...
...S&P had managed to beat numerous giants to win one of the industry’s crown jewels. Then Bloomberg showed up....
...and Patti Smith....
...Over lunch at the wonderfully simple, wine-minded restaurant S’Estanc Vell in Vilafranca in the middle of the island, he talked of his pride in what he has achieved....
...With travel demand still depressed, “it is tougher to absorb these kind[s] of fuel shocks”, she said....
...andrew.hill@ft.comTwitter: @andrewtghill Letter in response to this column: No 10 shake-up resembles deckchairs on the Titanic / From James Hart, Dublin, Ireland...
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