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...Louise Linton, aka Mrs Steven Mnuchin, is still atoning for the 2017 Instagram post in which she was pictured disembarking from a US government plane in full designer clobber, including (her words) “#tomfordsunnies...
...She had been criticised for signing a letter querying the process by which Steven Galloway, chair of creative writing at the University of British Columbia, had been fired....
...Neither Conrad nor Santayana expected human nature to improve, a view that might reconcile us to our own degenerating historical moment....
...Against Love by Laura Kipnis; Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin; and Rogue Empires by Steven Press. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party?...
...But it soon becomes plain that the tale is darker and weirder than other fleeting comparisons — Robert Louis Stevenson in sinister mood, Joseph Conrad in morally festering form....
...CEO, Clinical Insights B J Ord Chairman, John Livingston & Sons Jo Owen Social entrepreneur James Palumbo Chairman, Ministry of Sound Robert Perlman Chairman, CRU Group Neil Phoenix Founder, Conrad...
...Tim Hayward Gardens Gardens of the Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from...
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...Contenders for the job include Kent Conrad, the retiring Democratic senator from North Dakota, and Jeff Bingaman, the outgoing chairman of the Senate energy committee....
...Steven Haberman, dean of the Cass Business School at City University, says the UK is simply less attractive: “The package we can put to a student from India and China is difficult....
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...Fascinating design: from Conrad Shawcross a machine (a stage-struck moon probe?)...
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...focus of buzz in Thailand over the past three years, with its seemingly unceasing procession of luxury hotel launches, from the sprawling W Retreat and Banyan Tree resorts to the aggressively contemporary Conrad...
...Other UK schools are investigating the scheme, says Cameron Stevens, chief executive. “We’re probably at the lowest point for students getting funding in quite a while....
...Dr Steven Shafer, an expert witness for the prosecution, told the court that Dr Murray must have left a drip of the anaesthetic running into the singer’s bloodstream....
...Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities in New York, argued that this means increased US demand is drawing in goods from abroad....
...The old town has the sleepy tropical feel of a colonial-era South American port recalled in novels, such as Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo....
...While the Maloney family wasn’t looking to sell, “we created the transaction by presenting the strategy to them”, says Steven Wacaster, a partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, the private equity fund....
...Steven Dorff is the broken-wristed film star convalescing in LA’s Chateau Marmont hotel, that Versailles on Sunset Strip....
...Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities, notes that when excluding petroleum imports, the US trade deficit fell by 1.1 per cent....
...Mr Obama needs to let the Blue Dog Democrats such as senators Max Baucus, Ben Nelson and Kent Conrad know who is in charge....
...From The Remains of the Day’s severe Mr Stevens, ghoulish manservant Lurch in The Addams Family, and downright creepy Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, household staff often get a bad press....
...John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros, economists at RDQ Economics, noted that a third of Tuesday’s GDP revision had been due to faster inventory liquidation....
...Another British great, David Lean, enlisted the help of Christopher Hampton, Robert Bolt and Steven Spielberg to adapt Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo ; but as the director’s health declined, so did the film’s...
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