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...Who is Bernard Madoff? When was the ‘triple lock’ introduced?...
...Set in 10th-century Italy, the opera is centred on Adelaide, widow of Lothair II of Italy, who is pursued by rivals Ottone, the German emperor, and the noble Adelberto....
...Eisenhower vs Adlai Stevenson II in 1956 — the original victors not only won again, but increased their margin of victory....
...Sep 8 Death of the QueenThe death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 brought to an end the longest reign in British history — over 70 years....
...Bernard H CaseySocial Economic ResearchLondon, UK and Frankfurt, Germany...
...Bernard Donoghue, ALVA chief executive, said London’s landmarks had recovered particularly slowly because they were “highly dependent on foreign visitors” and as a result were “suffering from the tourism...
...The Joan Mitchell Foundation said on Tuesday that it had sent a cease and desist notice to Louis Vuitton, the flagship brand of LVMH, the luxury conglomerate controlled by French billionaire Bernard Arnault...
...ii) Does it represent a lack of foresight in making its earlier targets?...
...Amsterdam, which recently attracted the listing of a Spac launched by LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier, is starting to emerge as Europe’s centre for these blank-cheque...
...II” (1930) sold for $48mn ($51mn with fees, estimate $50mn). Mondrian’s previous auction high was a fee-inclusive $50.6mn....
...Known as “judicial public interest agreements”, they were created in 2016 under an anti-corruption law known as Sapin II (after the then finance minister Michel Sapin) with the aim of resolving corruption...
...Printed with a photo of the late Pope John Paul II on the front, they spurred more than one guest to walk out. Were they ironic? An attempt to reclaim a hate slogan?...
...Emmanuel Carrère was “second on the list” of the economist and journalist Bernard Maris’s favourite writer friends....
.../ From Bernard H Casey, Frankfurt, Germany...
...Other American Arts & Crafts adherents, notably Purcell & Elmslie and Bernard Maybeck, frequently added sleeping porches to their houses, often on the upper storeys to better catch the cool breezes....
...They alleged that 11 Wendel executives and three board directors, including the investment company’s heir and former chair Ernest-Antoine Seillière and then chief executive Jean-Bernard Lafonta, benefited...
...The site was occupied in the 16th century by a palace built for Catherine de Medici, then the widow of Henry II....
...Star writers turned up such as JB Priestley, EM Forster and George Bernard Shaw, as well as David Lloyd George (though the former prime minister, a natural orator, suffered speaker’s cramp in the absence...
...Bernard Shapero of London’s Shapero Rare Books characterises their Tefaf offering as “just a little amuse-bouche of what we do”....
...“I am feverish about it,” she wrote to her old friend and art dealer Bernard Berenson. “Do come over, just to unpack her and set her up in her new shrine! Do!”...
...When he completed his “Frog Service” dinner set for Empress Catherine II of Russia, he sold tickets for exclusive viewings....
...Bernard Law, the Boston cardinal who covered up the abuse, was forced out anyway....
...Prince Albert II, the Monaco sovereign, this week launched the latest phase of a digitalisation programme that will add data security and high-tech services to the attractions of a place better known in...
...He also criticised Europe’s wide-ranging Mifid II reform of financial markets, which “has simply increased costs while doing absolutely nothing to give useful information to investors”....
...Since succeeding his father, Rainier III, 15 years ago, Prince Albert II and his advisers have worked hard to make the tax rules of Monaco — founded in the 13th century by his piratical Genoese forebears...
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