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...Yesterday’s events are the culmination of a four-year investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, led by Alvin Bragg, a black, 49-year-old Harvard Law School graduate who has become a hate figure among...
...I’d ride my horse to school and was very fortunate to have the freedom of space, nature and fresh air....
...It takes almost an hour and a half for one single samba school to slowly parade by, with the same song on repeat. Then you must brace yourself the next one. And the next one....
...Last month, Miami’s school board voted against a measure that would recognise October as LGBTQ History Month, a decision taken out of concern that the district would contravene Florida’s so-called “Don’t...
...The Peak District is Britain’s oldest national park — a mosaic of moors and valleys at the heart of England, ringed by the cities of Sheffield, Manchester and Derby....
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...(FT) Silicon Valley’s caste problem India’s prestigious technology institutes serve as feeder schools to Google, Microsoft and other Big Tech titans....
...(FT) Racism in the Valley: why tech investing has not changed Black venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been sharing stories of racism in their industry since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis...
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses city officials of violating the gun lobby’s free speech rights for political reasons and says the city is seeking...
...Her south Los Angeles neighbourhood — among the most affluent majority-black districts in the US — has had shoddy reception for as long as she can remember....
...Unlike New York’s Wall Street and Silicon Valley in California, it lacks a comparable engine of extreme wealth creation....
...Simon Smith, head of Savills research in the Asia-Pacific region, says sellers are still reluctant to drop prices to ensure a sale....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
...The Silicon Valley unicorns they had nurtured for years were finally ready to fly the nest and float....
...For the lawyers who ply their trade in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the ability to read the mind of Judge Richard Seeborg would be extremely useful....
...How a Japanese bank became a leveraged loan heavyweight An imposing tower on the edge of Tokyo’s main entertainment district offers passers-by little hint of what goes on inside....
...He worked at the law firms Skadden and Reed Smith before being appointed by George W Bush to a district court and then an appeals court position in 2007....
...When many communities are hollowed out, we still have our local school, our pub, our village shop . . . ” Recent events, however, have changed some minds about Great Tew’s great leap forward....
...He travelled frequently by rail from his home in the English Lake District, while at the same time ranting in print against the expansion of railways....
...Local schools were facing cuts, school meals were being rescinded and university tuition fees were rising....
...Winter , by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$24.95 (Jan 2018) Smith continues to write close to real events in the second instalment of her inspired quartet of seasonal novels....
...(FT) Women in business school A flurry of sexual harassment cases in Silicon Valley hasn't deterred a number of young women from getting MBAs and pursuing work in the tech industry....
...Jayne Fleming Pro-bono counsel Reed Smith Human rights advocate Jayne Fleming has been the force behind several of Reed Smith’s award winning programmes to provide support to refugees....
...“Adam Smith’s market is a whole lot different from our markets....
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