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...Team of Rivals, her 2005 doorstop on Lincoln and his cabinet, also served as the basis for the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, which captured the autodidact Lincoln’s erudition as well as his penchant for dirty...
...Scott is the only black Republican in the US Senate....
...Clever Republican strategists at groups such as the Lincoln Project were brilliant at making provocative TV ads....
...As always, email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...Ridley Scott’s new two-and-a-half-hour-long film stars Joaquin Phoenix, and documents a lot: Napoleon’s rise and fall, some of his most famous battles, and his relationship with his wife, Josephine....
...Benjamin stayed on EWI for a cover of rapper Travis Scott’s “Antidote”, a rare foray into contemporary climes featuring dense organ voicings and sparse, atmospheric drums....
...Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Mitt Romney (R-UT), this week introduced the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement and Enforcement Bill, aptly dubbed the “Cansee...
...Most prominent among the city’s plans is a R$1bn subsidy package for companies that renovate old or abandoned buildings....
...Even the US had Lincoln, who didn’t always ask nicely. I won’t push this trope of the enlightened absolutist too far....
...Simon SchamaAnd Ridley Scott really had no idea what he was doing, in my view. Lilah RaptopoulosI imagine, like Napoleon, Ridley Scott just couldn’t help himself....
...They are different from you and me,” F Scott Fitzgerald wrote nearly a century ago....
...She will replace Kevin Scott, who is stepping down for personal reasons. Smart reads The oracle of Tokyo?...
...As always, email me your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...From meetings with Sam Altman to a secretive “Project R”, SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son is looking to make a comeback after years and years of bad bets, The Information reports. CEO or CEOs?...
...The case is “at the far end of the scale of complexity and difficulty”, John Scott, a barrister for a key Evergrande creditor group represented by Kirkland & Ellis, said in court....
...A second reason I resisted the R word is that I had no plans to stop working....
...A bigger pity is the presumption, belied by movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, that provoking an audience to reflect on history’s big questions must necessarily be a drag on entertainment....
...Mike Scott, of Scotts Rolls-Royce & Bentley in Hayling Island, warns against the temptation of bargain Shadows: “One turned up on a trailer – the owner had bought it for £6,000; it wasn’t running....
...I went to SUNY Purchase, and I heard Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter, and I was like, I love how unique everybody’s voice is, you know?...
...Rap star Travis Scott delivers a smooth guest rap on the ballad “Open Arms”. There is a lot going on, but the music never sounds busy or rushed....
...Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) co-introduced with her colleague Roger Marshall (R-KS) the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act....
...Antonia Scott, the heroine of Juan Gómez-Jurado’s Red Queen (Macmillan, £14.99) is a super-solver with an IQ of 242....
...At Ronnie Scott’s, across two virtually uninterrupted sets, they exhibited the compressed energy of a band on the road....
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