Hints and tips:
...On the walls of his condo, which is a short walk from the hospital where his oncologist works, original Andy Warhol prints featuring Mao Zedong and George Armstrong Custer hang near some Benito Mussolini...
...He decided to go to the hospital for a check-up. On an X-ray, doctors discovered a bullet still lodged in his back. Saraev was shocked....
...“I just thought, ‘If people are being ethnic, I might as well be my own ethnic,’” he said in the 2020 documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan....
...In 2005 he even tackled Madison Square Garden, ground zero for the pop spectacle of rock shows and sports games, though to date this remains his great lost work, held back by legal issues....
...There were 17,418 hospital admissions in the week ended August 26, almost three times more than the figure for the week ended July 8....
...Visits to rock concerts with his children and, less agreeably, increasingly frequent trips to his local hospital are sprinkled among waspish assessments of the present political class....
...The problem is that whoever wins the next election will face significant pressure to put taxes back up again to avoid another painful round of public sector austerity....
...Business confidence in Europe has hit rock bottom in the second half of 2022, with a third of the region’s biggest industrial companies expecting to stop or scale back operations in the bloc because of record...
...It is an eight-hour round trip door to door, thanks to the TGV that connects the two cities. But it is worth the slog, he says....
...A few deepfakes made a splash: one appearing to show Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy belly-dancing did the rounds earlier this month....
...After a little while, Teena’s father came round. “So. You’ve left,” he said. “Yes.” “Are you OK?” “I’m OK.” He paused. “Well then,” he finally asked, “where will you live long term?”...
...SBF said he wasn’t ready yet but chair Maxine Waters felt he had enough to say in his round of media interviews. She threatened to subpoena him and SBF came round to the idea....
...A short while later, you check yourself into hospital with a complaint that your doctor delicately characterises as epigastric pain. Over the next hour you’ll be subjected to a battery of tests....
...And me and the girls will get round David and rub him on the back and go [in voices full of mock concern], ‘Aw, David! Are you OK?’”...
...I come to call this belief “reverse causality”, the idea that the present can explain the past, rather than the other way round....
...Less than two years ago, Cat Rock set up a website called justeatmustdeliver.com to urge other shareholders to back the Grubhub merger....
...Saylor did a round of TV interviews this week to insist his faith is unshaken....
...News round-up Lukoil chair Ravil Maganov dies after fall from hospital window, Russian media report (FT) US sought records on Binance CEO for crypto money laundering probe (Reuters) Illumina wins battle...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 15 ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Kadkoy argues the bloc needs to pay more attention to what is happening in the country — and urgently speed up the dispersal of a fresh €3bn funding round announced last year....
...It’s an important win for activists in Korea Inc., where corporate behemoths including Samsung and Hyundai operate without much interference....
...News round-up Bill Ackman sells entire Netflix stake at roughly $400mn loss (FT) KKR-led group launches $15bn bid for Australia’s biggest hospital company (FT + Lex) Credit Suisse warns of first-quarter...
...So I will proceed with round 2 of the levelling up fund, at least matching the £1.7 billion value of Round One....
...Yet there are some signs that on energy, at least, that unity is not as rock-solid as it could be....
...After shots of that, I need to try Teremana, The Rock’s tequila....
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