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...In the Bodleian’s exhibition, Mary Shelley’s manuscript of Frankenstein, with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s editorial suggestions inked into the margin, is on display....
...A technology columnist for The Los Angeles Times, Merchant’s first book was 2017’s The One Device, an alternative look at the development of the iPhone....
...“The China factor seems a little more explicit this time,” said Shelley Rigger, a veteran expert on Taiwan politics at Davidson College....
...Among companies that have reported (about 40 per cent of the S&P 500), nearly four in five have beat earnings expectations, with an average beat of 7.7 per cent, compared with a one-year average of 4.4 per...
...The S&P 500 ended 0.4 per cent lower after oscillating between gains and losses on Friday afternoon, but was up 2.6 per cent over the past five sessions, its biggest weekly gain since late March....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 was down 0.1 per cent on Friday, but added 2.4 per cent in the week....
...“Simply stated, we’re in a freight recession,” said Shelley Simpson, chief executive of trucking group JB Hunt, on a recent earnings call....
...And The Romantic is the fourth of the “whole-life” novels that Boyd has made his speciality, following 1987’s The New Confessions (the best), 2002’s Any Human Heart (the best-loved) and 2015’s Sweet Caress...
...X says that 90 per cent of 2022’s top 100 spenders globally have now resumed spending. But ad revenue in the US is still down 60 per cent, Musk said this month....
...He joins a diverse board including a former Archdeacon and former journalist Sarah Sands, who was previously editor of Radio 4’s Today programme....
...In September, Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito and Democratic senator Joe Manchin introduced competing permitting reform bills....
...I've lost count of how many you've written, but it's in the 20's. And as I read-- SALMAN RUSHDIE: 21st book. INTERVIEWER: 20-- SALMAN RUSHDIE: It's the 21st book. INTERVIEWER: 21st. Thank you....
...I took classes designed to help me identify the toxic and anti-Christian messages in books by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley. (It wasn’t a coincidence they were all women.)...
...Nate Shelley Are you drunk? Ted Lasso You’re giving the pre-game talk....
...Wayne Eagling’s flashy 1985 Royal Ballet version — frocks by the Emanuels, score by Vangelis — was a stinker, and 2016’s sumptuous full-evening Liam Scarlett production was lumpen, prolix and uninvolving...
...Now 52, he grew up in Buchanan before his family moved to Colorado. It was a difficult upbringing. Grant, who is gay, was brutalised by homophobia and religious conservatism....
...The proposals prompted a sell-off in equity markets, where the S&P 500 index fell 1 per cent, having been flat before reports of the potential tax rises....
...Archie Norman turned around Asda, ITV and is trying to turn around M&S [but] the knighthood for retail went to Ian Cheshire!”...
...Take 2020’s Mank, for example....
...“If your boat is broken out on the rocks/it wasn’t anger but in longing”, she sings on “Stay On My Shore”, from 2015’s Over And Even, to a gently fizzing country shuffle....
...Duncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association, another trade body, said that even allowing for general congestion at ports globally caused by Covid-19, there were “serious problems” at...
...Debut novels dominated 2020’s Booker Prize shortlist, and there are several titles that are worth watching out for in the coming year....
...On Radio 4’s Today programme last week, the novelist Kamila Shamsie urged coronavirus preppers facing potential self-isolation to “clear out their nearest independent bookshops as well as the spaghetti aisles...
...His departure would “be taken negatively given it adds a degree of uncertainty in a crucial period for S&N as it attempts to firmly embed the new commercial model and return to market growth rates following...
...A long-time fan of knitting, the American artist Sterling Ruby launched a selection of sweaters earlier this year as part of his fashion line S.R. Studio. LA....
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