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...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...Race and finance: asset managers fail to walk the walk Shundrawn Thomas, a black American from the south side of Chicago, now serves as president of Northern Trust Asset Management, a $1.2tn fund house...
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...We write in response to James E Hansen et al’s letter (“EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources”, December 17), which mistakenly advocates nuclear energy to address climate change...
...Capital and Ideology , by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap Press, RRP£31.95/$39.95, 1104 pages Raghuram Rajan, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is professor at Chicago...
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
...Claire Bushey in Chicago 53....
...Much of it is cheap compared with Good Earth. “People walk out of here with $400 of produce in their carts,” says Al Baylacq, a partner in Good Earth....
...There is an outdoor pool as well as a stretch of private beach. Why The house was owned by Al Capone, the Chicago gangster also known as “Scarface”....
...Many have close ties to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad....
...This is exactly what Fisher et al called for in the 1930s. This full separation is an unlikely scenario....
...Come for the pasta tales and the al dente jibes at US food groups such as Kraft Heinz (FT) New York’s $200bn man Thomas DiNapoli, the New York state comptroller, talks climate, corruption and the shadow...
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...And if Zuckerberg et al believe in community as much as they profess, why are their own headquarters and philanthropic efforts not more community focused?...
...You/SCIENCE from Masnadi et al, SCIENCE 361: 851, 2018 (10.1126/science.aar6859). Modified with permission from AAAS.)...
...She describes the brands as “idiosyncratic to the Australian way of life”, which might explain her success in standing up to the relentless march of Zara, Topshop et al....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
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