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...But, as far as the IMF was concerned, the US political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s promised end of history never arrived....
...(Adam Tooze) — Inside a ghost town of abandoned mansions in China (Architectural Digest) — Seth Klarman on what makes a value investor (Institutional Investor) — ‘Coliving’ landlords turned $800 rent-stabilised...
...Focused though it may be on the life of 16th-century statesman Francis Bacon, it is with two contemporary quotes that Jesse Norman’s The Winding Stair closes: one an extract from the 2019 Supreme Court judgment...
...The daughter of writers, Brodeur is the co-founder with Francis Ford Coppola of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story....
...They also say the timing was set by the Vatican, after Pope Francis approved a martyrdom decree for the Ulmas last December....
...Pope Francis cancelled plans to take part in the summit, while US vice-president Kamala Harris looks set to attend. How will history judge Sultan al-Jaber?...
...The Financial Reporting Council, the UK’s audit and accounting regulator, has also been investigating Khan and Adam since 2018 in a separate probe....
...When I met Pope Francis in the Sistine Chapel, I gave him a printed copy of “Die Dunkelheit”....
...In the Long Room, a plaster overmantel has been cleaned of smoke dirt to reveal the flanking figures of Adam and Eve, her fig leaf dated 1638....
...May 2; further information and tickets here ‘El Niño’, ‘The Hours’ and ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’, The Metropolitan Opera John Adams’ opera-oratorio El Niño — a bold reimagining of the Nativity — will be conducted...
...Adam Curtis is not clairvoyant — yet long before the invasion of Ukraine, the film-maker and journalist was already focused on the bloody eastern edge of Europe....
...Adam Bell, head of policy at the consultancy Stonehaven and former head of energy strategy at the business department, said the regulator had been “asleep at the wheel”....
...Adam Posen, president at Peterson Institute: Worse....
...“The jet stream causes all of our weather,” said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center. “You cannot separate those two things.”...
...“As far as recent decades go, this sense of disorientation is new,” says Adam Tooze, a fellow FT columnist, who is also a history professor at Columbia University....
...‘The Brompton: Engineering for Change’, by William Butler-Adams and Daniel Davies Will Butler-Adams, the chief executive of Brompton, the fold-up bicycle company, has teamed up with journalist Daniel Davies...
...In 2020 University College London renamed a lecture theatre that had previously borne the name of Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton, widely considered the originator of modern eugenics, a word he coined...
...He has struck up a friendly rivalry with fellow crypto-enthusiast and Miami mayor Francis Suarez....
...Sotheby’s scored the highest price of the season — £23mn (£24.3mn with fees) for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes” (1963, third-party guarantee), though this was below its...
...Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns . . . these are just some of the 400 works on public view in Holmby Hills and rarely lent....
...Sotheby’s two sales on June 29 came in below estimates, to make a combined £125mn (£150mn with fees), but they fielded the highest price of the season: Francis Bacon’s guaranteed “Study for Portrait of Lucian...
...Instead of initially employing architects, Adams planned its form with Martin Francis, a designer who worked on the glass pyramid extension of the Louvre in Paris, and James O’Callaghan, a structural engineer...
...Attractive tax benefits and opportunities to work from home have transformed what was once largely a holiday destination, and the Miami Movement – a phrase coined by mayor Francis Suarez – has had an impact...
...Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Eric Adams are embracing “city coins” in part to lure money into the burgeoning crypto industry in order to fund things that the city needs....
...Don’t miss the great newsletter collaboration between my colleagues on FT Unhedged and Adam Tooze’s Chartbook....
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