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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...Human Acts, by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, Portobello, RRP£12.99 The author, winner of 2016’s International Man Booker Prize for an earlier novel, The Vegetarian, examines the long shadow cast...
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, advanced 10.3 per cent to settle at $47.56 a barrel, it’s best one-day performance since December 2008....
...The other challenge for HP, Dell, et al is that the biggest customers can do it themselves. Google designs and builds its own serv” programme....
...It’s Pfizer’s second-best selling drug globally and it is the only company selling it in China....
...But photographs by Man Ray, Robert Frank, Ed van der Elsken or Rineke Dijkstra (two of the best-known Dutch names in international photography) are not the obvious attractions....
...Fascinating and funny, it has been as well-received by Indian as western reviewers. … Gironimo!...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Selections by Jane Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural...
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...(Financial Times) Best Buy named Hubert Joly as its new CEO on Monday, ending months of uncertainty for the US electronics retailer (Reuters)....
...“We went from a Gen X company as an indie mag to a Gen Y company online,” says Smith. “Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile....
...CA Inc climbed 9.6 per cent to $25.02 as the software developer easily beat analyst expectations....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...The S&P healthcare index put on 1 per cent. That performance made it the best performing sector on Wall Street and took the index to a three-year high....
...But some have tried, the best empirical effort coming from a team led by Gary Clyde Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute of International Economics....
...But Mr McMillon – regarded by many as a potential future Walmart chief executive – knows he needs to persuade Wall Street that the billions invested represent the best use of its money....
...In theory, the Commission has the best view into the system....
...The internet is also fuelling another feature of Cannes: its broadening international scope, with the best creative work increasingly from Asia and South America, where sector growth remains strong....
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