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...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press) A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Expected to fall like ninepins, Democrats will end up with a net gain of governors....
...One example is Great River Energy, a Minnesota co-operative that in early May announced it would retire its 1,151MW Coal Creek power station in 2022, then add 1,100MW of wind energy the following year....
...The US is wrong to paint China as an intellectual property thief, law professor Gu Bin writes....
...Mr Cuomo secured a US Navy hospital ship, which sailed up the Hudson River on March 30, but what New York really needed from the federal government was reliable testing....
...Beyond the lay-offs in Michigan, US Steel cut jobs in Gary, Indiana, East Chicago, Illinois, and the Iron Range of Minnesota, blaming “challenging market conditions”....
...Its $1.5bn new building on the banks of the Delaware River wasn’t supposed to open until next year....
...It was the Red River Valley’s biggest farmland auction in years: several thousand acres of prime Minnesota ground for growing corn, soyabeans and sugar beets. No parcel was unsold when bidding closed....
...“Neither corrupt, nor a thief,” promised Morales — an underwhelming slogan overwhelmingly popular with Guatemalans sick of payola parliamentarians....
...“You walk on the Detroit River and you look across the river and you know you are so close. Things could be so much better if people weren’t so greedy,” she sighs....
...Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator who is also running for president, argues that Democrats have an opportunity to attract disillusioned Republicans....
...SS Were you in Minnesota? AS I was in Minnesota and I was in the country. I was a weirdo and didn’t know what to do with it, really....
...If the US price of a crop falls below a certain strike price per bushel, the government makes up 85 per cent of the difference....
...It would proceed through the Canadian Rocky Mountains, crossing and threatening countless watersheds that feed into the Fraser River....
...Within weeks US Steel was promising to fire up Granite City’s two blast furnaces across the Mississippi river from Saint Louis and rehire hundreds of workers....
...Neighbour B says, “You are calling me a thief?” A serious accusation. Neighbour A says, conciliatory, “No, no, only the sunshine is being stolen by your wall, ji.”...
...Doubles from $119; mtrainierguestservices.com Kettle Falls Hotel, Voyageurs NP, Minnesota Local legend has it that Kettle Falls, which sits amid forest on the Canadian border, was bought in 1918 for $1,000...
...That, Alan explained, is because, when the rains fall and the snow melts upriver, the water can rise by as much as 50ft....
...The company said it realised losses when it liquidated investments in hedge funds overseen by Black River Asset Management, which is in the process of spinning out into three independent companies....
...For the full fiscal year, the group earned $1.58bn, down 13 per cent from a year before, on an 11 per cent fall in revenues to $120.4bn....
...And in the margins of the narrative, details offered almost in passing — a body found by the river, a thief burnt in the market — create an impression of social breakdown that seems to invite a realist reading...
...Begin at the venerable Cud nad Wisłą and wander, as the river does, north. cudnadwisla.com Soho Factory Some Warsaw snobs might still refuse to cross the river, but more fool them....
...Sugar beet are rotated with grain and soyabeans beside the oxbows of the Red River between Minnesota and North Dakota. Cane and beet tend to rot....
...” The industry is concentrated in electoral battleground states such as Florida and Louisiana, where cane is grown, and Minnesota and North Dakota, home to the Red River Valley sugar beet region....
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