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...“It’s like filling your house with objects made to look antique,” says Turner Allen, a men’s personal stylist based in New York....
...Now his influence can be seen in a new generation of designers such as Max Allen, Claire Barrow and Matty Bovan (with whom he’s collaborating on a capsule collection later this year) who share his passion...
...On July 1, Vance revealed that he is pressing charges against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, its chief financial officer, over issues such as tax evasion....
...Sheena Iyengar, author of The Art of Choosing (shortlist, 2010), also went to history for her choice, Only Yesterday (1931), Frederick Lewis Allen’s informal history of the 1920s: “There is much to enjoy...
...Acclaimed poet and literary commentator Fiona Sampson publishes Come Down in February (Corsair RRP£10.99, February); Scotland’s Don Paterson is back with Zonal (Faber RRP£14.99, March) and Northern Ireland...
...In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, by Fiona Sampson, Profile, RRP£18.99/Pegasus, RRP$28.95 (June) A biography by a prizewinning poet, published for the novel’s bicentenary....
...Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82, by Andy Beckett, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 464 pages Lynsey Hanley is author of ‘Estates: An Intimate History’ (Granta) Photograph: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc...
...Most were developed to showcase a new computing technique by tackling only a very narrow set of problems, says Oren Etzioni, head of the AI lab set up by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen....
...The epitome of “Davos Man”, he is ready with a question from the floor or a quip from the podium wherever magnates gather, from Allen & Co’s media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, to the Cannes Lions festival...
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner both came from working-class backgrounds to head a company whose progress has done much to define the first century of the information...
...The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, by Owen Jones, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99, 368 pages Philip Augar is author of ‘Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City’ (Vintage)...
...Because Bush Sr has been so self-deprecating about his public-service achievements, his son decided to jump-start the inevitable upward historical revisionism....
...Bush Sr, much underestimated, assembled a first-rate national security team and managed the peaceful end of the cold war with finesse....
...His tone is flat but his delivery is quick-fire and self-deprecating, a bit like Woody Allen but in a better suit....
...published in the UK as ‘Barack Obama: The Making of the Man’ (Atlantic, RRP£25) The Obamas, by Jodi Kantor, Little, Brown, RRP$29.99, 368 pages, published in the UK as ‘The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage’ (Allen...
...The phrase “young Woody Allen” carries, alas, a reminder of its opposite. Older Woody Allen, still re-seeking the elixir of genius....
...The brainchild of spareroom.co.uk operations manager Gemma Allen-Muncey, speed-flatmating claims to be the antidote to the problem facing many young people: finding a reasonably priced room for rent with...
...Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, have all given money to the campaign to defeat the measure....
...Ben Allen is poignant as Mickey, Tom and Ellie’s tragic gay son. Another strand involves Billy (Kevin Trainor), young Tom’s pre-marriage lover....
...One points out that the club of the four largest City firms named in Anthony Sampson’s classic 1962 book Anatomy of Britain – Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Paines, Freshfields and Allen & Overy – has...
...Find out more about these chaps on the Broward Sheriff’s website, including pictures of Frank Basto, Joseph (”Boca Joe”) Fafone Sr and Joseph Farfone Jr....
...In this respect, Margaret Thatcher, almost uniquely among women, says Mansfield, was ”manly”: he cites with admiration her warning to George Bush Sr. on the eve of the first Gulf war: ”Don’t go wobbly on...
...Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate Carolyn Sampson Hyperion Mozart’s dismissive attitude to Salzburg is well known, but it didn’t translate into inferior music - at least, not if this collection of sacred music...
...Bill Gates Sr and Warren Buffet have formed a group called Responsible Wealth to campaign to keep it....
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