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...Big W, a discount variety goods retailer owned by Woolworths, this month withdrew loudspeaker announcements that expressed support for the vote after receiving “feedback” from its staff and customers....
...Indeed, some American owners, such as Ellis Short (Sunderland) and Randy Lerner (Aston Villa), have underestimated the challenge and suffered crushing losses as well as the humiliation of relegation....
...The set ends with Cole introducing the expanded band over the razor-sharp stabs and funky rhythms of Lee Morgan’s “Untitled Boogaloo.” ★★★★☆ ‘K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us’ is released by Stoney Lane Records...
...In his twenties, Pace left a job in a bank to work with the composer W.C. Handy, known as the father of the blues....
...Carola Long Daniel W Fletcher Reality TV helped cast the designer into the spotlight In 2019, Daniel W Fletcher took part in Netflix’s reality series Next in Fashion, competing against 17 other designers...
...Two decades ago, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and his fellow al-Qaeda leaders provided the justification for US president George W Bush to launch the American-led invasion of Afghanistan...
...In 1919 Proust, robed in a sealskin dressing gown, was among the improbable guests (Edith Wharton, Cole Porter, Marshal Foch) who celebrated Gladys’s triumphant bagging of her prey....
...Most of the songs sounded deeply considered and avoided stressing the more salacious poetic details, as in W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”, about a rape by Jupiter in the guise of a bird....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...One critic even accused Cole of plagiarism. Though he had some early success in New York, Cole returned to Europe a decade after he left, a precocious talent in search of mastery and technique....
...The CIA under the administration of President George W Bush set up so-called “black sites” around the world to hold terror suspects following the September 11 attacks in 2001, including Abu Zubaydah in Lithuania...
...Tim Adams, head of the Institute of International Finance, another bank lobby group, said: “Randy Quarles is one of the finest, most thoughtful people I know.”...
...But new figures in agencies such as Randy Quarles, appointed this month to the most powerful bank regulatory job in the country, should make a real difference....
...While the US has passed unfunded tax cuts before — for example at the start of the George W Bush and Ronald Reagan presidencies — public debt was lower back then....
...writing a history of American “grand strategy” in the Asia-Pacific region, from the foundation of the republic to the present day, came to him when he was working as director for Asian affairs in George W...
...In 2001 the Hainan island incident, when a Chinese fighter collided with a US intelligence-gathering aircraft, applied heavy pressure early in the George W Bush presidency....
...“Memory and language are the two best things a writer has,” says O’Brien, who has also enjoyed Teju Cole’s Open City . How quickly can she sense a book that lacks depth?...
...“Mike Pence kind of knows how to get things done,” said Randy Neugebauer, a Republican lawmaker who worked with him in Congress....
...beak-mouthed painter disturbed contemporaries: “uncouth but has a wonderful range of mind”, noted John Constable; “the exterior so belies its inhabitant the soul”, according to the American artist Thomas Cole...
...Crossrail — recently renamed the Elizabeth Line — has teamed up with private galleries including the Gagosian, White Cube and Sadie Coles to deliver art work to six central London stations on the 26-mile...
...(Big W is the company’s discount department store chain.)...
...When President George W Bush embarked on a drive to loosen financial rules in 2003, two of the top US bank regulators posed for a photo with industry lobbyists....
...The other four newcomers are Paul McCafferty (formerly Barclays), Julia Cole-Turner (formerly Coutts), Rebecca Frowde (formerly Coutts) and Gileyd Romeo Eliav-Cruz (formerly UBS)....
...JULY … Blind Spot, by Teju Cole, Faber, RRP£20/Random House, RRP$40 (June) A marriage of words and photography from the author of Open City....
...Cassava Republic was also the first publisher to recognise the talents of Teju Cole, whose Known and Strange Things (Faber/ Random House) is my non-fiction book of the year....
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