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...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...Both also ignited what may be 2024’s biggest trend: “cowboycore” western fashion. One question stuck in the mind: since when did US fashion become so self-referential?...
...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...
...Japan: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Tokyo....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Until February 18; further information and tickets here Festival South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SOBEWFF) 2024’s iteration of this long-running festival looks set to be spectacular....
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 ended the day up 2 per cent to end a six-session losing streak. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 2.1 per cent....
...Therefore, to mark the end of 2023, we asked our colleagues to submit their favourite articles published over the past year for a special edition of our daily Further Reading missive (2022’s round-up can...
...The fiction of writers such as William S Burroughs and JG Ballard seemed to offer an approach that gave the viewer a way in....
...he denounced the behaviour of the tabloid press; Moore too felt strongly it needed to be restrained....
...Highlights Formula 1‘s Toto Wolff sits down for this week’s Lunch with the FT....
...Credit Suisse’s West Coast US investment banking head Gregory Quilici has joined the boutique firm William Blair in San Francisco....
...Thirteen and 2005’s Pretty Persuasion — premiered at Sundance)....
...But egg freezing is expensive, invasive and comes with low odds, writes Elaine Moore....
...Years ago, I saw Hank Williams’ grandson play a London gig. Hank Williams III, whose father Hank Williams Jr was also a singer, did a two-set show....
...In 1991, Demi Moore appeared on the cover of which magazine, pregnant and naked? What fate was shared by Frank Sinatra Jr, John Paul Getty III and Patty Hearst?...
...“We absolutely go out to think about communal viewing,” says Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s chief content officer. “That’s our role — to bring the nation together.”...
...William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, had choice words for describing what should become of former occupants of the White House once they left office....
...“Chen Chen and Kai Williams have created a hand-carved stone chamber pot that refers to Chen’s migration to the US as a child, and the marvel of modern plumbing, as well as America’s possible role as the...
...Six months later, Mr Williams said, “the protests confirmed our decision”....
...The owner Willy Bogner Jr worked as a cameraman for a few of the Jimmy Bond movies, which is why Moore was often wearing their sportswear....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...First is the ousting of senior mandarins who are judged to be out of step with No 10’s agenda — part of the ancien régime....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
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