Hints and tips:
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...But after learning he may soon die, Riswold was glad that he’d dedicated so much time to what would become the exhibition, Two Wars in One....
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...One friend notes the extreme lengths she’d go to find a particular item, or how she’d buy multiple versions of a white T-shirt, which she’d wear under a slip dress or black trousers....
...When you look at George W’s presidency, you don’t just think about W, you think about on the foreign policy side, Condi, Rumsfeld, Powell. You think about the people around them....
...Ralph Nader’s 97,488 votes in Florida in 2000 let George W Bush clinch the deciding state. Without Nader, no Iraq war....
...“It was the first time I’d been in a museum and I was struck by the power of both: the gigantic and heroic; and the small and mysterious.”...
...Last season’s sporty, otherworldly bodysuits gave way to bomber jackets with big blouson sleeves worn over flouncy twice-layered skirts that looked as if they’d been thrifted from a local flea market....
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...Arthur, Timothy Knight Brown and Arthur W Knight Brown....
...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...Some transformers do terrible damage: after the attacks of 9/11, Blair and George W Bush converted from managers into transformers who prioritised spreading democracy through war....
...Where there’s a lot of disagreement is about what happens next year, so most economists see Brazil’s V turning into a W next year with a fresh recession coming up....
...Carola Long Daniel W Fletcher Reality TV helped cast the designer into the spotlight In 2019, Daniel W Fletcher took part in Netflix’s reality series Next in Fashion, competing against 17 other designers...
...I’d seen a lot of comedies where the brown guy has a thick accent, and that’s the joke. So very early I decided I wasn’t going to do that.”...
...In 2014, Zuckerberg recruited him to run Messenger, which he’d help grow to more than 1.3bn users. But three years on, he was restless....
...But all that is little consolation to a teenager sitting in front of Mrs Brown’s Boys, feeling there is something more entertaining on their phone....
...Continue north into North Audley Street and cut through Providence Court into Brown Hart Gardens (Charles Stanley Peach, 1903-6)....
...He remembers Martin Luther King Jr in his living room. His father, a physician, treated Malcolm X after his home in New York was firebombed....
...Instead, Foster helped the art department create a custom fake that even Downey Jr couldn’t disdain....
...The prime minister would never live it down if he wore shorts to the Houses of Parliament (though he’d probably quite like to) and you’d be unlikely to catch Andrew Bailey rocking around the Bank of England...
...The former US First Lady sat in a softly lit living room, wearing a brown silk blouse and gold hoop earrings....
...Mrs W might be a gloomy old bird but I forgive her for her maximalist taste in design: the midcentury-toned clashing florals, teal geometrics and pink plaids that envelope every room....
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
...“Unions lift up workers, both union and non-union, but especially black and brown workers,” the president said....
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