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...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
...The Thai border town of Mae Sot is a seething microcosm of spirited resistance, dislocation and despair....
...Sculpted by Amy Mae’s eloquent lighting, Annabelle Comyn’s mesmerising staging (presented in partnership with Dublin’s Abbey Theatre) draws you into a claustrophobic household seething with desire, damage...
...Food and drink It has taken quite a while for England to embrace its native ferments, but English sparkling wine is now fully respectable, writes FT wine correspondent Jancis Robinson....
...Born one of eight children to a boilermaker’s assistant and tavern owner in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron was inspired to take up baseball after listening to a speech by Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the...
...One is Willie Adams, a father of four in his thirties, who was working at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital until last year, but is now unemployed and has recently been attending Robinson’s courses...
...“It’s like Reverend Jesse Jackson always said, baseball became a better sport after Jackie Robinson started to play.”...
...His 1937 review of Wee Willie Winkie brought down the law and closed Night and Day, the magazine he reviewed for. He took up with The Spectator, but not for long....
...“We see this as the future in this space,” says Aaron Robinson, senior sustainability manager at United Airlines....
...In 2009, Willie Walsh, then head of BA, abandoned the policy of choosing wines on the basis of what they tasted like, cutting costs by appointing a single exclusive supplier for each of the three classes...
...That’s in advance of the historical average and their rating relative to peers, writes Mark Robinson....
...the dinner included a high-profile Belgian art dealer, a City lawyer, two young French wine professionals, three of us Masters of Wine, including Anthony Hanson of Christie’s, and lifelong trencherman Willie...
...Additional reporting by Gwen Robinson in Bangkok A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 9 2018. ©201 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...He may be unique in having had his favourite number — Willie Nelson’s version of “Blue Skies” — sung for him and his wife by the artist himself....
...It was a time of legends — Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Willie Mays....
...Sugar Ray Robinson tends to be the aficionado’s pick....
...“Three Women” found White at the piano loosely revisiting an old blues track, Blind Willie McTell’s “Lord, Send Me an Angel Down”, while “Would You Fight for My Love?”...
...Every one of the book’s mistakes was like a hammer-blow to me: we will come to the story of the “Wisden willie” later....
...Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, said: “This deal provides a future for BMI Regional and should secure around 330 jobs.”...
...François Nosten, who runs a malaria research operation in Mae Sot on the Thai side of the border, says there is “virtually no transmission” of malaria at refugee camps....
...Claire Robinson, a managing director in the structured finance business at Moody’s, said: “Post-financial crisis, the environment has changed....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage guarantors, and private investors who own mortgage loans were also mentioned as possible providers of cash in the scheme....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been quietly lobbying the US Treasury to cut the dividend that the housing finance groups pay on preferred stock issued as part of their government bail-out, reports the FT...
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have cost the US taxpayer $150bn and the bill could rise to at least twice that....
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