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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
...Performance Antonio Pappano Gala, Royal Opera House The ROH bids farewell to Antonio Pappano after his 22-year tenure as its music director....
...John Silk, minister of natural resources and commerce for the Marshall Islands, said the country “did not come here to sign our death warrant”, calling for a fossil fuel phaseout....
...(The US didn’t speak at the majlis; its climate envoy John Kerry said last week: “You’ve got to have largely a phaseout of fossil fuels in our energy system.”)...
...Their bland don’t-mind-me-meekness is all the more offensive for it, resulting in an energy vampire form of architecture. It’s subtopia writ large if anything....
...While some focus groups have described him as “boring”, “bland” and “weak”, he has been ruthless in his efforts to remould the party in his own image....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...“Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now” by John-Paul Stonard, with a foreword by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (Particular Books, £50) Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out...
...In business, meanwhile, there is a knighthood for António Horta-Osório, former chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group now at Credit Suisse, who said he felt “very honoured”....
...General George Marshall, architect of the plan that revitalised Europe after the second world war, was like Powell tapped to be secretary of state....
...If there is one lesson from John Maynard Keynes for Schäuble it is “look after employment, and the budget will look after itself”....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Aged 17, John played with a skiffle band called The Sekrets....
...Such narratives provoke an emotional response in a way no bland exhibit label ever could....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...The second find was an image of Dawnay by photographer John French, taken on 25 April 1950 to record Dior’s first London show....
...Antonio Canova is, surely, a sculptor for the Instagram age....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...The accounting watchdog — which is itself being examined by ex-Mandarin John Kingman to see if it is fit for purpose — looked over the accounts of 40 tadpoles and wrote to 15 (unnamed) with big questions...
...When she does express herself openly, it is usually in set-piece speeches or bland conversations with diplomats or subjects....
...John Updike’s novel Rabbit is Rich , set during the second oil shock of the 1970s, is a portrait of America racked by anxiety over energy....
...“It’s a loose space and a rigid body,” says John Tuomey, “but with room to breathe.”...
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
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