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...Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which argued that the age of disruptive technology was over, came out around the same time....
...Roux opts for lobster risotto to start, followed by the beef, while I choose celeriac cacio e pepe and cod....
...Author Tyler Vigen walks us through his research on why the bridge exists, building idle curiosity into a pleasantly undramatic bit of local history. The story, like the bridge, is pedestrian....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...As Robert Shrimsley noted a while back in a thoughtful column on the legislation, this stuff is really difficult....
...It claims Robert Downey Jr as a neighbour, but most folks would hardly know the estate is even there. Sprawling compounds are common in this billionaire’s playground some 100 miles east of Manhattan....
...On the one hand, Monday is the 77th anniversary of the 1950 Schuman declaration, when the then French foreign minister Robert Schuman called on France, Germany and other European countries to pool their...
...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...The commercial advertising on display spoke to a transformed game — from stodgy old pastime to rising e-sport and grist for the content mill....
...“Vernon E Jordan Jr passed away peacefully last evening surrounded by loved ones. We appreciate all of the outpouring of love and affection,” his daughter Vickee Jordan said in a statement....
...A very good recent book that confronts this question head-on is Robert Sapolsky’s Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst....
...The city’s medieval mausoleums are jaw-dropping, tiled like jewels, including the Gur-e-Amir....
...Vinnie has a whole crew of amiable duffers behind him, including sex-dungeon master Tommo, who looks like a scaled-down version of Robert Downey Jr (Ryan Sampson); Ash, the blond muscle (Aaron Heffernan)...
...As if desperate to prove the meaningfulness of it all, the E! red carpet presenters were notably hysterical and gushing this year, discussing each outfit with increasingly earnest tones — ‘iconic!”...
...British e-tailer Anna Garner’s exquisite online curation at The Garnered includes several Brooklyn ceramicists: Julianne Ahn, Amanda Moffat, John Born and Jason Miller....
...The three new board nominees — Robert E. Knowling, Jr., currently chairman of Eagles Landing Partners, KPMG veteran Louis P....
...Yet in Japan, the sale of JR East and its regional siblings is regarded as a triumph. The bulk of Japan’s ultra-reliable railway network operates without a single yen of public subsidy....
...Consider the case of Robert Taylor. He was hired by Arpa in 1965 and made director of the information processing program a few months later, at the age of 34....
...– Nancy MacLean vs Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts. – Piketty: Will Macron’s Marchers take power? This is on whether Macron et al will push ahead with a reform to deduct income tax at source....
...The violence in the city of Charlottesville came ahead of a rally called by neo-Nazi and other “alt-right” groups to protest against a decision by the city to remove a statue of Robert E Lee, the 19th century...
...In that regard, take a gander at Robert B. Ekelund Jr, Robert F. Hebert and Robert D....
...And added to all this Confederate imagery was our school mascot, a mustachioed southern gentleman dressed in the same shade of grey that general Robert E Lee wore to surrender at Appomattox....
...(Tyler Cowen) —— 7....
...Jake Gyllenhaal used to be the star you least noticed on a movie screen, blandly handsome, scant of mannerisms, eclipsed by any passing co-performer: Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, Robert Downey Jr...
...Robert Downey Jr reportedly earned less than $1m for starring in the first Iron Man (2008) but renegotiated his deal when the movie became a knockout hit....
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