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...Katarina Witt, the two-time Olympic figure skating champion from the former East Germany, has described the Russian programme as a “throwaway society” for young athletes....
...Just over a century later, the Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage, author of The Abominations of Modern Society (1872), took a strong stand in his sermon, “Summer Temptations”, warning unwary Americans against...
...The Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the term “dismal science” when discussing the economics surrounding the reintroduction of slavery to the West Indies....
...Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas...
...Despite Hill’s allegations, the appointment of Justice Thomas is confirmed. 1994 — a legislative triumph After six years of work, Biden shepherds a landmark gun control and anti-crime bill through the...
...The 2014 winner was Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty....
...Signal, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper’s examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt...
...Thomas Occupy, a spokesperson for the Blockupy group, said: “The troika is interfering with the independence of the country.”...
...It sometimes felt as if the unsettling image of the robot was being made to stand for a host of other trends that worry us: rising inequality, for example, which a year on from Thomas Piketty’s Capital in...
...organised pirates at the bottom — Witt maps out how an industry was turned on its head by file-sharing technology....
..., by Stephen Witt, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 Apple’s entry into the subscription music-streaming market is proof that the music industry survived — just — but Witt tells the exciting story of...
...From Mr Clay Witt. Sir, Regarding your article on Charlottesville, Virginia (“American pastoral” House & Home, May 19), Thomas Jefferson’s house is called Monticello, not “Montecillo”....
...This anthology includes excellent essays by Elif Batuman, Emily Witt and Wesley Yang....
...According to Susan Witt, who sits on the board that oversees the scheme, it has also become a powerful social force....
...Only five songs out of about a dozen have been completed so far, Witts told me recently....
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