Hints and tips:
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...We’d sit with the artists and watch in silence.” They returned home in 2017 to help curate an exhibition to mark the Litografia’s bicentenary at the National Institute for Graphic Design in Rome....
...Daniel D’Aniello is a conservative. William Conway is a major Democratic party donor. David Rubenstein, who worked for President Jimmy Carter in his early career, is considered a moderate Democrat....
...The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton, Faber & Faber £25, 588 pages The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower, Allen Lane £30, 608 pages Tony Barber is the FT...
...“These boys have talent and now a nuanced sense of what they want to do,” he told me by phone from his locked-down bunker on the Côte d’Or....
...The so-called “H-D Revelation” electric power-train offers a catapult-like 0-60mph time of three seconds, with regenerative braking helping to top up the batteries for a range of 95-146 miles....
...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
...Today’s OBR report marks another step on Britain’s road out of austerity – and I’d like to thank Robert Chote and his team for their work....
...All of them had productions last year to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth....
...David Sr was one of the first signatories of the Giving Pledge, the initiative led by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates that has persuaded billionaires from investor Bill Ackman to Facebook’s Mark...
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...is filed under ‘D’ for death)....
...There was a time I started playing with him again, in the 1980s, and we did some touring, you know, off and on, then I’d duck out. Sometimes he wouldn’t invite me! And then I’d come back.”...
...‘Robert De Niro, Sr, Paintings and Drawings 1948-1989’ runs at the D C Moore Gallery in New York until July 31; dcmooregallery.com....
...When we meet at the Maida Vale Studios in London, he says he is looking forward to making his mark on Mr Gedge, one perhaps spiced with a certain eccentricity....
...The identity of Deep Throat, Mark Felt, the FBI’s associate director until 1973, was not confirmed by Mr Woodward until after his death in 2008....
...Pelosi vehemently criticised both George Bush Sr and Bill Clinton for not being tougher on the country’s human rights record....
...What marks him out is a refreshing willingness to indulge in serious debate about rebooting US competitiveness....
...In 1946, James Rowe, a former aide to Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote a memo to Truman that I bet has been read by team Obama....
...Marks and Spencer, the high street retailer, will be the first supermarket in the UK to offer Beneforté, a natural cross-breed of British broccoli with a wild growing Sicilian variety....
...Brzezinski Sr must have done something very right, or very wrong, to get posted to Canada after that. “In those days, the British still referred to it as BNA,” Brzezinski says. “British North America.”...
...Although Mr Pawlenty’s ambitions have not been a secret – he has made trips to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, all early primary states – the creation of the exploratory committee marks the first...
...The levy would mark the first time a state-level income tax is imposed in Washington since the 1930s, and would hit individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $400,000....
...While the book industry as a whole has been slow to regain confidence since 2007’s high-water mark for deals, 2010 saw several six-figure advances for debut works of fiction....
...And I told him that if he wrote you a letter I’d give it to you, and I have. But I had a conversation with little David, Jr. and David, Sr. His family has been struggling with the economy....
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