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...What sets them apart from all past greats — except Alfredo Di Stéfano, Real Madrid’s leader of the 1950s and 1960s — is that they sustained their greatness for nearly 20 years....
...The legendary Alfredo di Stéfano called the Bernabéu la fábrica, the factory....
...Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson will step down within the next year after the mining company’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Australia last year. More here....
...“Only at 20 does your body function perfectly,” mused Alfredo di Stéfano, star of the 1950s, and younger footballers often feel, with some justification, indestructible....
...Simon Stone’s new production for the Paris Opera shifts La traviata to today’s screen-obsessed world, with his heroine a kind of It girl influencer....
...Publisher Simon & Schuster described the latest move by the justice department as a “frivolous, politically motivated exercise in futility” since hundreds of thousands of copies had already been distributed...
...La traviata tells the story of the tempestuous affair between Violetta and Alfredo, who fall for each other but struggle for the acceptance of society and Alfredo’s family....
...Even Simon Corder’s lighting, a tricky prospect at Holland Park where part of the performance takes place in daylight, works a treat....
...Along the way Canonaco has picked up a few reinforcements — partner Alfredo Folle and senior advisers John Crompton (once the markets boss of bailed-out banks investor UKFI) and Andrew McMurdo....
...First will be whether he can keep the team that Marchionne so highly praised together — with the departure of the overlooked Europe boss Alfredo Altavilla a bad early sign....
...Frankly, not much,” says Alfredo Pastor, emeritus professor of economics at Iese Business School in Barcelona....
...Jaar; Simon Norfolk...
...Although so far there are not any official statistics specifically dedicated to monitor this phenomenon,” says Lancaster University’s Prof Alfredo De Massis, director of family business....
...“There’s no question that a problem many people could see four or five years ago is now a serious problem — for Catalonia, for Spain, and for Europe,” says Alfredo Pastor, an emeritus professor at Barcelona...
...“Many US museums are realising that ‘colonial’ doesn’t just mean Protestant New England,” explains Simon, who recently sold an important and long-missing canvas by the Mexican Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768)...
...After the match, Real’s great Alfredo Di Stéfano gave him his shirt – a symbolic handing on of the mantle. Eusébio lost his other three European finals, but always transfixed fans....
...Sotheby’s, meanwhile, has recruited veteran marketeer and brand specialist Alfredo Gangotena, as chief marketing officer....
...This would matter less if Germont were not busy manipulating Violetta into leaving Alfredo a few metres away....
...Converts include Felipe González, former Socialist Party prime minister and the party’s current leader, Alfredo Peréz Rubalcaba....
...ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner with photographs by Iwan Baan, Lars Müller Publishers, RRP£38 Torre David in Caracas...
...Joseph Calleja’s most recent Covent Garden appearances (Gabriele Adorno opposite Placido Domingo’s Simon Boccanegra, Alfredo to Renée Fleming’s Violetta) proclaimed a tenor who deserves star billing on his...
...Simon Kuper is an FT writer and columnist To comment on this article, e-mail ftweekendmagazine@ft.com ; to ask the writer a question, e-mail askthewriter@ft.com...
...The world had mostly forgotten her when on November 29 1913 an antique dealer in Florence named Alfredo Geri received a letter postmarked Poste Restante, Place de la République, Paris....
...Concerns are now mounting at the rift emerging between the Spanish and Venezuelan governments, after Spain’s first vice-president, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, said a statement issued on Thursday by Venezuela...
...Alfredo di Stéfano, the Spanish forward, once summed up Spain’s football history in a phrase: “We played like never before, and lost like always.” On Sunday, Spain should finally win a World Cup....
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