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...“Nothing seems so simple anymore,” Stevens sings in “Genuflecting Ghost” over an acoustic-guitar melody....
...[CLIP FROM STEVEN GRENDE’S RECORDED PHONE CALL PLAYING] Oliver Roeder And eventually Grende finds a sympathetic ear. The local prosecutor directs the local sheriff to find these hunters....
...The Elk Mountain Ranch manager, Steven Grende, kept a closer eye on the hunters this time. He was in charge of patrolling for trespassers....
...It is only really in the final chapter that Mithen circles back to the Middle East, where agriculture started: “By 10,000 years ago, the hunter-gatherers of the Fertile Crescent had become farmers....
...His many essays — from a bibliography of more than 130 titles, covering topics such as the role of grammar in Colombian politics, 19th-century orchid hunters and the interment of the bones of author Jorge...
...Curbing exports from Tehran will be difficult: the country is exporting more oil than at any time in six years, our energy editor Malcolm Moore reports....
...The author Malcolm Gladwell told Vanity Fair: “Writers . . . have this false ethic of originality. Whereas musicians are like, ‘Yeah, totally — we took this little bit from that song....
...There, among the Arctic ice floes, Captain William Day is seeking Jesse Stevens, his former second-in-command who has gone missing along with his ship and crew....
...Debbie Harry and her fellow New York veterans were an unofficial adjunct to the so-called legends slot, which had been filled earlier on the same stage by Yusuf/Cat Stevens....
...I took a shore walk with Terry Hunter, one of the indigenous guides changing tourism in Australia....
...Accompanists include Stuart Bogie and Doug Wieselman on clarinet, Malcolm Parson playing cello and Mike Haldeman on guitar. With “Cerulean” at the midway point, the music becomes agitated....
...“Collecting Westwood is about collective memory,” says Steven Philip, co-founder of vintage store Rellik, who has a vast fashion archive at his studio in Brighton, including more than 300 early and one-off...
...Thanks to an early mentor, she was producing recordings in Nashville at a young age, giving her the skills she needed as vocal producer for Steven Spielberg’s recent film of West Side Story....
...Such reactions to parental loss help explain another phenomenon, which the writer Malcolm Gladwell and others have called “eminent orphanhood”....
...Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor Our favourite pieces • We think we made a little bit of FT history this week, when Steven Bartlett became the first guest editor of an FT title....
...Steven Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh and Oliver Stone will not be scrambling for the rights to his life, as they did over the Pentagon Papers source Daniel Ellsberg; environmental whistleblower Erin Brockovich...
...Twitter’s main character of the weekend was Malcolm Gladwell....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit • Two pieces had me hooked this week, both on a similar theme: the trials and tribulations of trying to be a company with a conscience....
...That leads him to an optimism about human progress, not dissimilar to psychologist Steven Pinker’s....
...Hurricane animation explainer by Steven Bernard, sound design by Tom Hannen ‘How to read a hurricane map’ by Steven Bernard here...
...Steven Pinker, the ‘oracle of optimism’ The Harvard psychology professor does not sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational....
...Sufjan Stevens has been on a heavy musical trip lately....
...Steven Mnuchin, who worked as US Treasury secretary in the Trump administration, is also a former partner, as is Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s former prime minister....
...It was, he says, an example of what Malcolm Gladwell describes in his book Outliers as “demographic luck”....
...“Jack was obviously ‘team Elon’ from day one,” said Stefano Bonini, a corporate governance expert at Stevens Institute of Technology....
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