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...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Phil Urban, chief executive of UK pub group Mitchells & Butlers“All energy support has done is stop things spiralling further out of control.”...
...Following Octavia Butler and NK Jemisin, it imagines a world after catastrophic climate change....
...In her penultimate album, in 2016, there was even a lovely little song, “Lay Me Down”, with another living legend, Willie Nelson....
...More recently, the industry has come under renewed pressure in the wake of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s election victory....
...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...
Trainers from Nike Air Jordan and Adidas Yeezy are among those that can make a fortune for entrepreneurs that treat shoes like stocks
...“Families from the nearby embassies like four or five-bedroom apartments, which new-build options rarely do,” says Holly Butler of agent Garton Jones....
...Masculinity, as the influential gender theorist Judith Butler has contended, is a “performance” that becomes accepted as reality through the same shared actions and behaviours....
...Other views Nick Butler — Ukraine and the shifting balance of power Nick Butler — Wanted: long-distance high-voltage grids that can link continents Colby Smith — Mexico: Investment grade no more?...
...Nick Butler interprets Qatar’s decision to quit Opec as a sign of the once-powerful cartel’s waning influence. It has become a price-taker, with no control over the market it once ruled....
...Roger Pielke Jr of the University of Colorado formulated the “iron law” of climate change: when societies are asked to choose between economic growth or cutting emissions, they always choose growth....
...They ended up working as a cook-and-butler duo. But then her father was interned on the Isle of Man, along with other male “German-speaking aliens”....
...Another view Nick Butler - The real risks of the falling oil price Quote of the week “This is to go back to the past and not to see the future.” — Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical...
...“Late Night Willie” featured stinging John McLean guitar, psychedelic organ from Stu Mindeman and powerhouse drums....
...When the founding “six” gathered in Messina in 1955, the chancellor Rab Butler dismissed the proceedings as no more than “some archaeological diggings” in an ancient Sicilian town....
...Obama eventually replaced the rug in 2010 with one bearing quotations from four former presidents and Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr....
...In their way, Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr have helped remind the rest of us about how we can — and will — defeat the terrorists who have struck recently in places such as Paris and San...
...● Related Lex note: BP — dodging the jaws ● Big Read analysis: Oil — From boom to bailout ● Nick Butler column: Oil companies need to tailor strategies to claw back lost profits ● News article: Statoil...
...Stein, a former editor at the Paris Review who used the same technique with Edie, her biography of the model Edie Sedgwick, weaves together the words of family members, business partners, butlers, lovers...
...Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, in which he played the chinless wonder Bertie Wooster to his comedy partner Stephen Fry’s all-knowing butler....
...Willie McAteer, the bank’s former finance director, was on Monday arrested and charged with 16 counts of giving unlawful financial assistance to buy shares in Anglo Irish in 2008....
...In May 1883, for instance, Pierpont Morgan gave his butler an 1882 Frodsham gold pocket watch as a wedding present....
...Last week, Mr Quinn’s son, Sean Quinn Jr, was jailed for contempt of court when it ruled he hid assets from Anglo Irish in breach of a court order....
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