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...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...FS: Last year both Booker Prizes, the French Prix Goncourt and the Nobel Prize for Literature all went to writers from the African continent....
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Yet in life the revered Booker and Nobel prizewinning author was famously rebarbative....
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...“We have to speak truth to power, all of us,” she says. “I always want to push back against the horrors of the world around us. But I always do things from a personal position.”...
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere As the first black woman to win the Booker prize, Bernardine Evaristo deserved to win alone....
...On the liberal side, dozens of activists from Group Justice and the pro-choice NARAL, rallied outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, together with senior Democratic lawmakers Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and...
...Citi — Tesco’s joint corporate broker — had suspended coverage while acting as an adviser for its acquisition of Booker....
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...Most of us don’t even remember that we ever harboured that fear. All the more reason to follow Mr Stephens’ advice and stop self-denigration.”...
...Smart reads Dumb pipes v bright lights Is AT&T savvy enough to understand the mischievous world of media?...
...Online travel booker Expedia’s fast-growing digital hotel search site Trivago has registered for an initial public offering, according to a filing on Monday....
...In Dickens, LA, the fictional setting of Paul Beatty’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sellout, cultural appropriation is more than a question of literary ethics: it is a matter of life and death....
...Mr Sessions said he remained convinced that the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision enshrining abortion rights was incorrect....
...Lisa Jardine, who died this week, had the merriest mind, the least cloistered scholarship and the most warmly expansive intellect that many of us will ever know....
...Janet Yellen, the new Federal Reserve board chair who gives testimony to Congress on Tuesday, may need to address deflation risks, says US markets editor Michael Mackenzie....
...And she is, I ought to say, my friend – a friendship cemented in 2002 when she chaired the Man Booker Prize. I was a judge for the first time and Yann Martel won with Life of Pi....
...The bull market in US Treasuries is three decades old....
...“We are ready at any moment to rip away the veil of respect, and treat royal persons in an inhuman way, making them not more than us but less than us, not really human at all.”...
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