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...The bitter exchange marked the latest episode in an escalating dispute between China and the Philippines, which has taken a more assertive stance under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr against Beijing’s coercive...
...Other multiple nominees included Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein, with seven nods including Cooper’s own performance as Best Actor; and literary satire American Fiction, whose...
...Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr is expected to announce his running mate within the next two weeks....
...It is inconceivable that Jake Sullivan, today’s national security adviser, or Blinken, could declare Defcon 3 without asking Biden....
...It is even hinted at before: “Affected effeminacy” is a phrase used by the New York Times in 1881, the same year Wilde’s personal style was caricatured in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Patience....
...Recommended reading I was fascinated by the New Yorker piece by Prince Harry’s ghost writer, JR Moehringer, who is no longer a ghost....
...And being in the United States, I was struck by the strength of the Biden team; with Blinken, with Sullivan, Avril Haines, with Burns....
...While President Ferdinand Marcos Jr approved US access to bases in his country, he said during a visit to the US this month that he did not want the Philippines to become a “stage post” for military action...
...The Washington Post’s always sage EJ Dionne Jr captures the stakes — and utter recklessness — and points out that “the cruelty is the point”....
...At the trial, Judge Cooper didn’t mention any fond memories of Gold....
...Five independent directors have been appointed to oversee different linked companies, led by former US federal judge Joseph J Farnan Jr, after lawyer Stephen Neal backed out of a board position....
...Sullivan & Cromwell worked with BlockFi — which filed for Chapter 11 last month — helping it to reach a landmark $100mn settlement with the SEC and state regulators earlier this year, as it won putative...
...US firms such as Steptoe & Johnson, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and Perkins Coie are now accepting currencies such as bitcoin in exchange for legal services....
...Biden has sent top officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, to explain the risks....
...When Donald Trump Jr texted: “He’s got to condemn this s*** Asap,” Meadows agreed....
...It’s not to get into conflict,” Sullivan said. “It’s to compete vigorously and to push back in service of our values and what we believe to be universal values.”...
...“It was completely, completely out of the water for me, initially,” says William Sullivan, who was Tehachapi’s warden until a few months ago....
...Sarah Cooper’s latest Trumpian lip-syncs seem subject to the law of diminishing returns....
...“What is important to the president and also our national security adviser Jake Sullivan is that everything we do must help advance working families and the American middle class,” she said....
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: Sarah Cooper Six years after quitting her tech job to concentrate on comedy, doing stand-up, online sketches, blog posts and books, Sarah Cooper’s future felt unclear....
...Read more Two days after Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr announced that 45 ancient artworks worth $250,000 would be repatriated to Pakistan, the country’s New York consul-general Ayesha Ali marked...
..., London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper,...
...(Add words of admiration from fellow northerners John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Vegas and Ross Noble.)...
...“They had access to that personnel file if they wished and they chose to have [it] reviewed by a lawyer from Sullivan & Cromwell rather than reviewing it themselves.”...
...His company, the Japanese retail giant Seven & I Holdings (the parent company of 7-Eleven), produces more greenhouse gas than big railroad companies and auto manufacturers such as JR East and Toyota — and...
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