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...Born in Baghdad, he has gone from working for disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer to acting as a fixer for oil companies in the notoriously murky world of post-Saddam Iraq....
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...The decision came a day after a judge in New York rejected an attempt by the Queen’s second son to prevent a civil court action lawsuit by Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre....
...“As far as I know, the history of the tank top starts from the 1930s, where men would wear a V-neck slipover that was often knitted at home,” says Paul Smith of the tank, from his Covent Garden headquarters...
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Athens Polymath 1,063: John Buxton, Chesterfield Crossword 16,407: J Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey...
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...(WaPo) Epstein and universities’ weakness MIT’s Media Lab’s decision to take anonymous donations from Jeffrey Epstein was unconscionable, John Gapper writes....
...And neither does its owner’s business ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier accused of sex trafficking underage girls....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...FT) Santander profit drops 10% as Brexit and Argentina hit earnings (FT) JPMorgan backs $3.8bn Sirius Minerals fundraising (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Javier Espinoza and Robert Smith...
...Most substance-abuse programmes in America are based on the 12 steps, a method pioneered in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous....
...Can he hang on, after what he described this week in a USA Today opinion piece as “the most humbling moment in our 118-year history”?...
...So, comparatively against the euro area and USA which are on more of a cyclical upswing, UK growth may be a tad slower in at least the first part of 2018....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the stars are out in force: Will Smith, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Russell Crowe and, by video-link, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Richard Jeffrey, chief economist, Cazenove Capital Management More optimistic than 12 months ago Brexit poses a major challenge to the UK....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen 5. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears 2015 (so far): 1. In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2. X, Ed Sheeran 3....
...I expect the official short-term rate to rise by 50 bps in the USA and UK in 2016, to fall in China and to remain unchanged in Japan and the Eurozone....
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