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...“The goose that lays the golden egg is in trouble,” said Alex Vines, an Angola expert and head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, a British think-tank....
...(It is hard to resist mention of the immortal Roderick Spode in PG Wodehouse’s 1938 The Code of the Woosters who features as leader of the much-feared Black Shorts.)...
...Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford, Faber, RRP£16.99 Spufford, known as a distinguished writer of non-fiction, brings 18th-century New York to life in all its hyperactive infancy....
...This is not nostalgia for a golden age. Farming is entering a new phase of innovation and sensitivity to the environment....
...It is largely a work of synthesis, which acknowledges its debt to important recent publications in the field, especially those of Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals....
...The twist this time is that the heroine is not the goose who lays golden eggs but the spider who spins golden threads. Mother Bruce continues until January 4. www.tron.co.uk...
...Its golden age was the 1960s when Otis Chandler was publisher. He opened its first Washington bureau and expanded international coverage while investing in marketing and promotion....
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