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...By contrast, Albert Hammond Jr prefers the more meditative art of coffee making....
...yells the American writer Walter Isaacson, straining to be heard above the cacophony....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Having served as chief economic planner to the late Philippine president Benigno Aquino, Arsenio Balisacan said he never expected to take the same post under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr...
...Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and Gordon Smith...
...The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut (Pushkin Press/Penguin Press) This “work of fiction based on fact” is a stunning portrayal of Johnny von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematical genius who helped invent...
...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk seeks to tell a much bigger story than the one outlined above....
...He quotes another 20th-century guru, the philosopher Walter Benjamin: “He said that sometimes it’s not the big events that capture a moment, sometimes it is the garbage of civilisation which captures that...
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Although elected, India’s Narendra Modi and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu are the rough equivalents of Pakistan’s Yahya Khan and Indonesia’s Suharto....
...The well-funded political scion Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Green party’s Jill Stein, and progressive activist Cornel West are still in the mix, with the potential to attract protest votes....
...Walter Scott, a director for more than two decades, died in September 2021, aged 90. In February 2022, Thomas Murphy, 96, stepped down from the board and died three months later....
...Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri dubbed her show Big Aura after Walter Benjamin’s definition of aura from his 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as something intrinsic to a work...
...Farrand shared the house with her maid, Clementine Walter. Walter’s little room looked out on to the yellows and hot reds, whereas Farrand’s rooms looked out on to beds of softer colours....
...There are also few biographers who have had so much access to powerful people as Walter Isaacson. So his biography Elon Musk is a must-read — albeit a long and dense endeavour....
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...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...Look out for Fallen Tree, a wooden bench that appears to sprout from the limbs of a tree, developed with Benjamin Graindorge; the Blister bench in folded leather by Normal Studio and the metal-pierced Belle...
...The Philippines “is long overdue” for its own fund, said finance secretary Benjamin Diokno....
...Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and David Hindley...
...A phalanx of famous artists and intellectuals are also portrayed, including André Breton, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Victor Serge....
...A paradoxical position vis-à-vis capitalism was already recognised in 1929: Walter Benjamin argued in his essay “Surrealism — The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” that Surrealist techniques...
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