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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.”...
...“Like the dope fiend who cannot move from place to place without taking with him a plentiful supply of his deadly balm, I never venture far without a sufficiency of reading matter,” W Somerset Maugham wrote...
...“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....
...The collection’s allusions to Bruce Wayne’s secret life are subtle yet effective....
...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...
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...“No matter what happens, there is going to be a reckoning,” Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, warned at the event....
...Stanley Kubrick UK Stanley Kubrick enlisted his Barry Lyndon production designer Roy Walker to work on the sets for The Shining....
...Roy Bailey, a Texas fundraiser who served as national co-chair of Trump’s joint fundraising operation with the RNC, said it was “literally hard to keep with” the number of new donors from his state....
...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....
...Roy Blunt, the Republican senator from Missouri who has received $4.6mn of NRA spending over his career, last week warned Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, that rushing ahead with gun legislation...
...Glenn Hubbard was chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers under George W Bush from 2001 to 2003. He has impeccable pro-free-market credentials....
...From his interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, where Stewart methodically took the presenter and business network to task for their failings in the 2008 financial crisis, to his endless skewering of George W...
...Morrell is a registered Republican and, although he worked for the Obama administration, he started at the Pentagon under Robert Gates, George W Bush’s defence secretary....
...That is an inherent conflict of interest,” said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration....
...It is full of f-bombs courtesy of its “hard man” player Roy Kent (UK readers will spot the likeness to real-life Roy Keane) and has storylines so corny and simple that they would make Love Actually’s Richard...
...He also ran up a huge tab buying drinks for others, according to Bruce McCrae, a roommate at the time. “It was Nicholas’s way to bribe people.” Some patrons suspected his death had been a sham....
...Lasso, the genial transplant from the Midwest to leafy south-west London, is undaunted by the team’s seven consecutive ties: “We gon’ get a W soon!”...
...Roy Cohn, the corrupt and unscrupulous assistant prosecutor who in real life secured Ethel’s death sentence (and later acted as an attorney for Donald Trump) also features, dripping with lust for Esther/...
...division chief of the division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF Earl GastPresident, University Research Co Helene GaylePresident and chief executive, The Chicago Community Trust Bruce...
...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...
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