Hints and tips:
...The search for new funds has raised alarm bells among Russia’s oligarchs, who are already feeling the squeeze from western sanctions and government attempts to shore up the rouble....
...Kerstin Gier’s Ruby Red series (translated by Anthea Bell)....
...Back in 1998, US vice-president Al Gore used a satellite phone to call Alexander Graham Bell’s great grandson, announcing that at last the world had truly global telephone coverage....
...(Bell, who died in 1990 aged 62, would surely have won a Nobel were he alive today.)...
...Now, as the report by the TBI’s Anton Spisak acknowledges there are strong notes of cakeism here about the trade-offs involved (a lot of what people want looks perilously close to the single market membership...
...We aren’t burning sacred woods or ringing bells; it’s not about the ‘stuff’ and the distractions and the kit.”...
...Russian business news outlets Vedomosti and The Bell earlier reported the Kremlin’s support for the bill....
...But the rising number of British children starting school in nappies has been setting off alarm bells....
...Bell’s review is probably the best so far in a growing corpus of takedowns of a book that Bill Gates has described as his favourite ever....
...Schnittke’s Pianissimo piled a truly vast orchestra (pianos, harpsichord, electric guitar, bells, gongs) on stage for nine minutes of music — bizarre, cryptic....
...On a chilly night last week, the festival’s troupe could be found performing The Cherry Orchard with cherry trees in lieu of sets and church bells interjecting in the background....
...Tam-tams toll like church bells; the wind and brass choirs create static blocks of sound like imposing, ageless masonry. Insofar as there is any movement at all, it is a slow, methodical tread....
...Soon after Syriza, the Greek radical leftwing party, swept to power this week, alarm bells began ringing in the capitals of Europe....
...Unilever recently launched a social media platform to enable employees to swap ideas and sound alarm bells....
...“This sort of action by the authorities will only bring larger crowds to the street,” said Anton, a 29 year-old protester as he battled the -12C temperatures....
...Yet by sheer size, the collapse of Maribor diocese and its associated investment funds – Zvon Ena and Zvon Dva (Bell One and Bell Two) – is one of the biggest to blight the modern Church....
...Conversely, alarm bells should ring if banks reverse this course thanks to apparently contradictory regulation....
...Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle’s “Time/Bank” (2009, ongoing) posits a currency of “hour notes” that can be exchanged for services....
...His 2003 Hamlet at Edinburgh, with George Anton as the prince, teemed with beautiful moments but also had Hamlet raping Ophelia. Gratuitous brutality?...
...Graham Bell raced in five Winter Olympics from Sarajevo to Nagano and is now a presenter on the BBC2 snowsports programme, Ski Sunday (www.graham-bell.com)....
...Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser, Norton, RRP£17.99, 400 pages Quantum teleportation may sound like science fiction, but in 1997 a team led by Austrian physicist Anton...
...Anton Boerner, president of the German export federation, called on the parliamentarians to “do their duty to prevent damage to Germany” from the crisis....
...For variation he beds a prostitute (Violante Placido), who turns out to be – this film is so navel-gazing it doesn’t recognise a cliché coming at it with bells and whistles – a tart with a heart....
...So too might such publicity stunts as last Friday’s gathering of the four artists to ring the closing bell at Nasdaq....
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