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...Salman Rushdie, Bruce Chatwin, Germaine Greer, Michael Herr, Ryszard Kapuściński, Clive James . . . Sonny listens to his guests, Gita talks to them.”...
...It seems to work: the sale, which included paintings by Rashid Johnson, Reggie Burrows Hodges and Jennifer Guidi, brings in $2.5mn....
...“Logan Roy isn’t picking the material for his drapery, he’s got staff to deal with that,” he says....
...After his sixth heir dies in a fortnight, patriarch Roderick (a vulpine Bruce Greenwood) summons investigator Dupin (Carl Lumbly) to untangle the mystery and the past....
...Her early career was in repertory theatre, which is also where she met and married Roy Hodges, a stage manager, with whom she had one son....
...Undaunted, they’re touring the US this coming year, while Bruce Springsteen (a mere 74) is resuming the world tour he began in ’23; Madonna (just 65) is continuing her Celebration tour....
...Deborah Bruce’s new play, Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre, marks the end of a jail sentence in more ways than one....
...Nilanjana Roy is a Weekend FT columnist. Follow her on Twitter at @nilanjanaroy Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Sir Roy Strong’s garden, The Laskett in Herefordshire, is a living archive of his life, his marriage to the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman and, well, a rich cultural history....
...Alongside the original hessian wallcoverings and wall-to-wall carpets is an extensive and eclectic hodge-podge of artworks and objects that paints a vibrant portrait of a family steeped in creativity – and...
...Mark Hodges, the former chief of Aviva UK and British Gas and current chair of insurer RSA, has been named chair of MAC II — the latest acquisition company in the UK by London-based sponsor Marwyn....
...He collected artefacts of dubious provenance: the skull of Robert the Bruce, the musket of Rob Roy....
...Wolfram ElsnerProfessor of Economics, University of Bremen, Germany Richard MurphyProfessor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School Engelbert StockhammerProfessor, King’s College London Roy...
...Lord Bruce Grocott, a former parliamentary aide to Blair, has waged a personal campaign for years to legislate to stop it....
...The chair of Lloyd’s of London, Bruce Carnegie-Brown, said that such a change would put the industry “in jeopardy”....
...Bruce Millan (Lab): Laid the foundations for a “Europe of the regions”. 1995-99: Leon Brittan Bruce Millan 1995-99: Leon Brittan Neil Kinnock (Lab): Served first as transport commissioner, before being...
...During the past two years, the likes of England’s Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy have among the world’s highest “strike rates”, meaning the speed at which players accumulate runs, while also each...
...It was really time to grow up and sell out as Lenny Bruce once advised.”...
...Others listed are Bruce Isackson, a president at WP Investments, and Robert Flaxman, founder and chief executive of Crown Realty & Development, both property companies in California....
...Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a cowboy matinee idol who has lost his shine (think Roy Rogers without the gee-tar) and is growing insecure about the slowing of his career to a gentle trot....
...Perhaps the similarity between “Sunset Highway” and Roy Orbison’s “You Got It” wouldn’t have been so evident had the latter not been playing over the PA 10 minutes before Earle took to the stage....
...“The black vote is the ‘X factor’ in this election,” says rapper and activist Bruce Franks, as he campaigns for Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill....
...Mace pointed out that Mr Thurston was a former CH2M employee — as was his predecessor, Roy Hill, who had filled the role on a temporary basis. Mr Thornton and Mr Bruce declined to comment....
...Serious figures — Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams — had defected from Labour to form the Social Democratic party. It was possible that the new party could come second in the popular vote....
...I think nobody should underestimate him, he works hard, he is effective, methodical, but he is utterly ruthless,” says Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP who first met him in the 1980s....
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