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...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...Residents roamed the streets calling for help as they surveyed the ruins of their cities....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Meanwhile, El Salvador’s government is planning a volcano-fuelled bitcoin city that will also function as a tax haven....
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...And there is, predictably, competition on the horizon, including the ambitious renovation of the city’s other historical landmark, the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, which has opened with a restaurant and roof...
...“I want to be sitting at the table to help make the decisions of how we build the next generation of affordable housing,” said Adams. (FT) Are planes Covid-safe?...
...a workplace utopia, fell apart and the man behind it all — Adam Neumann....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...She sent him to schools in a wealthier part of the city, a long daily bus ride away, including a specialist science school....
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...When 38-year-old Rasha Adam receives any information about protests or military activity in the city she sends it to 20 friends by SMS texts, which are delivered via the cellular network rather than the...
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Except, as Rose explained to City Insider, it’s Majid’s cousin Omar — boss of the unrelated Al-Futtaim group — who has done the M&S deal. Nothing to do with Rose’s Majid Al-Futtaim group....
...Awkward, then, that some of those who jumped or were pushed out (investment banker Mark Taylor, analyst Adam Lawson et al) ended up at N+1 Singer....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Adam LeBor is author of ‘City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa’ (Head of Zeus), £25 This article has been amended since publication to reflect the fact that all roads in the West...
...Equally exasperating: he has left on the keyboard all those stickers from Intel et al that PCs come with new. They are so disfiguring, I want to reach over and rip them off....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
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