Hints and tips:
...Ideally, I’d love to see my rate at sub-5 per cent. It will take patience and maybe a little bit of gambling. But I’m holding out,” she says....
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...“I’m happy, I’m married and I have a family and grandchildren.”...
...I’m reminded of all these things that happened, and I think, “That wasn’t me.” My favourite building is the National Parliament House in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by Louis Kahn....
...And so you wouldn’t just have to have the fabrication factory, you’d need all the suppliers as well....
...Pretty much what you’d expect....
...I’ve recently discovered Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...Houellebecq told me he was the atomised man that his novels decry: “I’m railing against myself.”...
...Brian M. Lutz and Michael J. Kahn of the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are the attorneys for Wirecard and its executives in the suit....
...He was cabinet adviser to Dominique Strauss-Kahn between 1998 and 1999 and chief of staff to Laurent Fabius between 2000 and 2002....
...Coll told me he’d spent several days on the film set with Steven Spielberg in an old factory in White Plains, New York....
...Timeship will be much more than a hub for R&D....
...The song was gaining traction, but it was properly popularised by John Cale, when his elegant piano-accompanied version was included in a 1991 Cohen tribute album, I’m Your Fan....
...Annenberg’s Mr Kahn says it is unclear if the company’s international bets will pay off. “I’m dubious about Breitbart’s potential for sustained financial success internationally,” he says....
...She said she loved it and I hope that’s true because otherwise I’m not sure what she’d do with such a thing. 46 Rue du Bac, 75007 Paris (+331-4222 3007; www.deyrolle.com)....
...I’d like to have better health. What’s your biggest extravagance? Wine with dinner every night. In what place are you happiest? I’m happy in my office working....
...One of his duties is to hand out Légion d’honneurs to surviving US veterans of D-Day....
...Reagan used to say: “Jim, I’d rather get 80 per cent of what I want than go over the cliff with my flag flying.” Today, bipartisan dealmaking is a distant memory....
...“Forgive me, I’d like to greet you,” he says, reaching out to her. “Are you well, Madame?” They shake hands, she asks how he is. “Very well....
...To paraphrase the English writer E.M. Forster, these people would rather betray their country than betray a friend. Elite members justify these mutual favours in the name of friendship....
...Here in France, journalists shacked up with François Hollande, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Bernard Kouchner....
...(Objection, m’lud! Counsel is leading the witness!)...
...Together with the image of The Iron Lady on buses and billboards, and renewed arguments about the Falklands, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d slipped back into 1982....
...The French journalist David Revault d’Allonnes said in an interview that in the US, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn would never have become what he became in France”. That is true....
...But I’m not holding my breath....
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