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...Fair compensation means that a person’s work is valued, plain or simple,” Saunders wrote in a statement....
...“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...
...Gregory Garre, a former solicitor-general in the administration of George W Bush, said it was “wrong to characterise this as a reflexively pro-business court”....
...A decade ago, book pirates helped to make local celebrities out of authors such as Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh, Chetan Bhagat and Devdutt Pattanaik....
...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....
...And Booker winner George Saunders has over 200 reader responses on Story Club to a recent post where he manages to make the craft of escalating the action in a short story sound absolutely gripping....
...Carola Long Daniel W Fletcher Reality TV helped cast the designer into the spotlight In 2019, Daniel W Fletcher took part in Netflix’s reality series Next in Fashion, competing against 17 other designers...
...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....
...“Of all the questions an aspiring writer might ask herself,” posits George Saunders in A Swim in a Pond in The Rain, his collection of essays on what you can learn from four Russian authors about writing...
...Still, Philip Saunders, fund manager at Ninety One, is confident that change is on the way. “The pendulum is swinging....
...Philip Saunders, fund manager at Ninety One, thinks all of this will herald change and investors will rethink excluding defence stocks from their portfolios. “The pendulum is swinging....
...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...
...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/...
...Nilanjana Roy FT columnist I’ve been burnt too often by the “book everyone’s talking about”, so I approached Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl with scepticism — The Devil Wears Prada meets Get...
...And then there’s Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s closest congressional aide, who became a mentor to a young New York developer named Donald Trump. Old demagogues may never die, or even fade away....
...Daniel W Fletcher, now known to a wider-than-expected audience through his appearance on Netflix series Next in Fashion, worked with seamstresses via Zoom to execute his collection....
...Robert Saunders Balcombe, W Sussex, UK...
...The historian Robert Saunders reminds us that in the 1975 European referendum campaign, Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn engaged in a 50-minute two-way debate on Britain’s membership with no studio audience, no...
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