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...“I get the tradition of Alfred Escher,” said one person involved in UBS’s deliberations....
...He credits the vast Victorian building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London’s Natural History Museum, with turning him on to architecture....
...HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford were other guests....
...What most people in the US consider “normal” increasingly looks weird — or WEIRD, according to the terminology of the Harvard biologist Joseph Henrich....
...Writer Joseph Roth told Stefan Zweig, “Do not delude yourself. Hell reigns”. By late February, Nazi decrees had laid the basis for “absolute control”....
...“Immediately after FTX collapsed, we extensively reviewed our due diligence process and evaluated our 18-month working relationship with Sam Bankman-Fried,” said Alfred Lin, partner at Sequoia Capital....
...The buyer (by telephone) of the 792-page sheepskin Codex Sassoon was Alfred Moses, a Washington DC lawyer, who has donated it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv....
...This comes directly from mountain springs via a pipeline built during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph, and is said to be some of the cleanest in the world....
...Robert had founded Maison Bonnet in 1950 after learning the craft from his father Alfred....
...He graduated from high school early and then worked his way through Alfred University and Fordham law school, earning his degree in 1962....
...The Natural History Museum, housed in a magnificent 1873-81 Alfred Waterhouse building, is split into four zones....
...Fiennes (yes, he is the brother of actors Ralph and Joseph) was up at 5am counting orchids – “about a thousand” – in a nearby field....
...Bad Homburg, one of the largest towns in the area, was where Alfred Herrhausen, former chairman of Deutsche Bank, lived — and where, on the way to work in 1989, he was assassinated by far-left militants....
...Walden, by Amy Berryman, focuses on the environment; Anna X, by Joseph Charlton, considers fake news, misinformation, trust, and social media....
...Highlight: The enchanting Art Deco Twickenham Bridge by Maxwell Ayrton and Alfred Dryland (1933) was the first major three-hinged, concrete-arched bridge in the UK....
...The garden evolved over 20 years, culminating in the non-Virgilian King Alfred on his high tower....
...The fact-finding mission will need to go back to Brussels to call [for] an Article 7 procedure, unless Joseph Muscat leaves office immediately.”...
...Jungwirth worked for a long time in the shadow of her husband, Alfred Schmeller, who was director of the 20er Haus museum (now Mumok) and who died in 1990....
...One of those who participated in a Davey “séance” was Alfred Russel Wallace, who was utterly convinced that he had witnessed genuine supernatural phenomena....
...Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, had no intention to merely influence the news: he wanted to control it....
...“They mustn’t delay,” said Alfred Tigere Takaemdesa, a 55-year-old voter. “If they delay we’ll start thinking they are rigging or something.”...
...In the 1970s, Chicago Imagist painters, including Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, were especially excited by the drawings of local autodidact Joseph Yoakum and Mexican farmer Martín Ramírez, who was interned...
...Alfred Nobel and many others — he includes stories about them that were new to me....
...The emotional force of his figures, with their deep dark eyes, piercing gazes, fleshy vulnerable countenances and awkward postures, is comparable to Van Gogh’s portraits of postman Joseph Roulin and Cézanne...
...Mr Yakunin added that even Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, had recently declared the US-imposed “neoliberal consensus” to be dead — something the Rhodes conference has mooted for years...
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