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...“Just by renewing her existing deals, Raducanu can expect to be generating revenue in excess of $1m . . . while other brands will no doubt be looking at Raducanu as a potential brand ambassador,” said Conrad...
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
...Some of Hardyment’s best passages involve lesser-known writers, such as Samuel Carter Hall, the model for Dickens’ hypocrite, Pecksniff, and his wife Anna Maria....
...Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize....
...You have to go back to someone like Samuel Johnson to find a mind as capacious and engaged and humane as that of Clive. His work will be around when we are all dust.”...
...Alexander Pope considered the water a “translucent wave”; Samuel Johnson called it a “silver flood”, and Joseph Conrad knew it as “a sea the colour of lead”....
...He has said, and I believe him, that he modelled his performance partly on Conrad Veidt in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. He has all the right moves....
...When Conrad Egusa, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from New York, arrived in Medellín early in 2012, he knew “pretty much straight away” that he had found what he was looking for....
...The Conrad, on Earlsfort Terrace, is also centrally located....
...Cases affected by the verdict include Conrad Black, the former publishing magnate, who was last month released on bail by a federal appeals court in Chicago pending a ruling on whether his conviction would...
...Three of these, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernandez and Ellen Harvey, are no such thing; but they and the others – conceptual painter Daniel Buren, geometric sculptor Conrad Shawcross and film-maker Douglas...
...Peter Conrad teaches English at Oxford University. His latest book, ‘Islands: A Trip Through Space and Time’ (Thames & Hudson, £14.95), was published earlier this year....
...Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space By Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, £14.95 This is not the book to help you decide between the Maldives or the Andamans as the destination for a winter break; Conrad’s...
...Travel Compiled by Harry Eyres Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space By Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson £14.95, 192 pages Islands are usually seen as idyllic retreats, but in Conrad’s view they can be prisons...
...“We think the court struck the right balance,” said Robin Conrad of the National Chamber Litigation Center....
...Judge Samuel Alito, the new nominee for the US Supreme Court, has a long record of deciding cases that matter to corporate America – and deciding them in ways that business can live with....
...The videos are kept in Jean-Conrad’s shirt cupboard and there is just one television screen in the room....
...Oil and energy ministers including Saudi Arabia’s Ali Naimi and Samuel Bodman, his US counterpart, meet in Riyadh to unveil a new database that aims to make the opaque world of oil markets a little more...
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