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...“Their voters are only going to see a few short video clips over and over via sympathetic media platforms,” he said in an email. “This hearing wasn’t about crime, it was about creating content....
...Alvin Jiang, the grandson of China’s former president Jiang Zemin, helped set up Hong Kong-based private equity firm Boyu, an early backer of Alibaba....
...Neely, who periodically tried to make some money on the subway as a Michael Jackson impersonator, had endured much trauma in his own short life....
...In a grievance-filled speech on Tuesday night from the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump lashed out not just at Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who has brought the case, but...
...Suncity was headed up by a man called Alvin Chau....
...The indictment brought against him in New York falls well short of the allegations being investigated elsewhere that he fomented an assault on the US Capitol to overturn the result of an election....
...Donald Trump stepped out of his SUV on Thursday afternoon on to the tarmac of Washington’s Reagan National Airport following a short appearance in federal court....
...Republicans of all stripes have rushed to his defence, and he may benefit in the short term from the perception, fuelled by rightwing media, that he is the victim of political persecution....
...It is hard to believe it would badly harm his presidential campaign in the short term. He may even get a boost....
...There are signs that the case will energise Trump’s supporters and rally the party around him in the short term....
...Speaking outside the courtroom, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters that while the conviction was “consequential”, the sentence fell far short of what his office would have liked....
...Merchan stopped short of issuing a gagging order on Tuesday, which would have prevented Trump from talking publicly about the case....
...The vehicles, which invest largely in safe assets such as short-term government debt, have drawn in more than $340bn since the beginning of this month....
...Click here for further background and analysis, including Joshua Chaffin’s excellent profile of the man presiding over the case, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg....
...Goldman’s $1.3bn in net earnings, meanwhile, fell short of forecasts....
...I share this conclusion with some reluctance because America has a deep tendency to confuse short-term power advantage with a historic triumph....
...Alvin Chau, chair of Suncity Group, was arrested in Macau on Saturday along with 10 other suspects over alleged cross-border gambling offences....
...winning favour by shooting an actress’s portrait without blanching her blue eyes (which tended to happen with black-and-white film stock) and learned his craft on silent films, assisting cinematographers Alvin...
...That threatens the core economy of Macau, an Asian Las Vegas with a louche underside that lies just a short boat ride from Hong Kong....
...Within about five minutes, as if Imhof and I were performing in a short video called “Dos and Don’ts at Café Einstein”, she began showing me something on her phone, leaning it carefully against the water...
...Smart reads Casino crackdown For two decades, Macau’s reigning casino king Alvin Chau was living a capitalist dream in China. His arrest could spell the end of the gambling hub’s glory days....
...London Theatre (now Gillian Lynne Theatre), LondonMusic: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: TS Eliot, Trevor Nunn, Richard Stilgoe “Everyone knows I really wanted to be a professional tennis player, but I was too short...
...The uncertainty hanging over the sector prompted a high-profile bet against the long-term prospects of Wynn and Las Vegas Sands by Jim Chanos, the celebrity investor who notoriously short sold Enron shares...
...A few decades ago, when global savings were in short supply, that would not have been the case....
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