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...Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel, the hedge fund that moved from Chicago to Miami last year, is one of the heroes in this narrative....
...He was elated by the idea of speaking to Joo Kyung again. Yet he knew North Korean state security agents didn’t take contact with the south lightly....
...As pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, he had led a months-long bus boycott that captured the country’s imagination and inspired resistance to segregation laws throughout the south....
...We drank a couple of bourbons and slunk out, feeling defeated, just as the next generation was filling up the dance floor....
...A stylish state-of-the-art refurb will open in August....
...The South is, as The Book Of Southern Wisdom so appropriately observes, “much more than a region, it is a state of mind”....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, €5.4m Where Just off the beach in Sitges, a resort south-west of Barcelona known for its nightlife....
...Now if you ask about opioid deaths and falling life expectancy, to me it’s striking that the United States is now spending over 17% of its GDP on healthcare....
...Mindful of criticism last year that the Asian exhibitors were banished to the upper floor, this year the “big box” galleries and emerging ones were mixed up....
...Architects are often feted for designing buildings whose “form ever follows function” (according to Louis Sullivan, the pioneer of Chicago’s skyscrapers)....
...the newest, such as South Korea’s National Pension Scheme....
...After all, the United States had once been the world’s number one oil exporter....
...Just here [at the ROH last month] I enjoyed Il trittico; three powerful operas in one evening. Gorgeous.”...
...Transporting a copse of trees is just one of many problems to solve....
...on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Center....
...You spent your childhood in Calumet City, Illinois, which borders the city of Chicago. Is it your kind of town? Spiritually, yes. I’m glad I grew up in the Midwest but I don’t think of it as my home....
...Building: Sydney Tower, Sydney, Australia Height: 1,001ft Steps to run up: 1,504 www.sydneytower.com 6 Swissôtel Vertical Marathon Since 1987, runners have dashed up the 73 floors of south-east Asia’s...
...Ladies who lunch shop along the lush Moorish-Mediterranean “vias” of Worth Avenue, a pastel-hued, doll’s house Madison Avenue of boutiques dripping labels and bougainvillea....
...They would have known it from the Great Seal of the United States, which was designed in 1782....
...the United States, soccer has clearly had an enormous growth spurt.”...
...And there were only about 40,000 of them, without flush toilets or manicured golf courses. The water politics of the western United States are complex, but come down to one fact: there is not enough....
...And Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has designed an extraordinary tower on South Street composed of a stack of a dozen torquing cubes derived from carefully engineered sculptures and developing on the...
...Former residents are scattered around the country – in Texas, across the deep South and further west....
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