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...Alas The Regime appears to be working under the assumption that its heavily signposted parallels with real events are daring satire; that its depiction of a petty, petulant dictator is telling us something...
...signature cinematic literacy, we are introduced to protagonists Jason and Lucia, a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, and see Lucia graduate from parole hearing to daylight robbery, set to the pumping rock of Tom Petty...
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...“Companies have underdelivered the IPO promise,” said Tracy Dolin-Benguigui, a Barclays equity research analyst who covers insurance companies....
...“This commitment can get open RAN ready for prime time,” Scott Petty, chief technology officer at Vodafone UK, told the FT’s Nic Fildes. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...The high level of killings by police officers in the US is a big problem for justice....
...In his departing letter, Richard V Spencer, the outgoing US navy secretary, reminded president Donald Trump that “the rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries”....
...In 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed after which former US president?...
...Please come and join us if you’re in London. We always want to hear your thoughts and feedback so do email us at longstoryshort@ft.com. Have a great weekend. Isabel Executive editor, Work & Careers...
...After 30 years on the US Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy resigns this month to spend time with his family....
...Encyclopedic museums are precious public goods, places that teach us about humanity in the round, free of petty nationalism and conflicts....
...New Boy , by Tracy Chevalier, Hogarth, RRP£12.99/$25, 192 pages Photograph: H Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images...
...This “abstinence v medication” debate has raged in the US since 1914, when the country’s first major narcotics laws were passed, according to Nancy Campbell, a historian at Rensselaer Polytechnic in New...
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...“It is an action of a small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women”....
...Online shopping is about shipping Leslie Hook has visited an Amazon distribution centre in Tracy, California to get the lowdown on a company pushing logistics to its limits with same-day and one-hour delivery...
...We suppose you’re probably looking at something like this and may v well already be washed out… We’ll come back to that chart in moment....
...What particularly struck our eye was the question of “How much better is Grand Theft Auto V than Grand Theft Auto IV?” (Tip of the hat to Tracy Alloway for highlighting this.)...
...Izzy cites SocGen research which asks whether EM outflows have only just begun, and wonders if taper tantrum V.2 has at least learned from taper tantrum V.1 that taper means the opposite of a US bond apocalypse...
...The investors selling stock are led by the promoters (core shareholders) – V.S.S. Mani, the chief executive who founded the company in 1996, and non-executive directors Ramani Iyer and V. Krishnan....
...We told him there’s v little tolerance for reactions like that and he needs to tone it down.” Mr Smith did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment....
...Update – Tracy points out: “Free-mont… Two-thousand-and-six” appears to be a reference to Fremont, subprime lender and past headache for Goldman through the Fremont 2006-E RMBS....
...But he died within a year and a bit of us getting here.” As for Lionel Asbo being a V sign to the UK, “What seems to have been lost is that it’s actually a very affectionate portrait of England....
...My country is being wronged, that is all I care about – that is what this argument amounts to, and that is where its petty-bourgeois, nationalist narrow-mindedness lies. V.I....
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