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...which boasts 68 rooms, direct access to the Mediterranean Sea, multiple swimming pools, tennis courts, gardens the size of 80 football fields and an amphitheatre, once hosted former US president George W...
...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...
...The story of George W Bush’s rush to war has been retold more comprehensively elsewhere....
...Because of the Allen sale, Christie’s had the greatest fall at auction, of 30 per cent....
...Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (W&N/Crown Currency) It’ll be a while before a definitive account of the cryptocurrency phenomenon appears, but Bloomberg reporter...
...“It’s truly historic,” said Barbara Perry, Supreme Court and presidency scholar at the University of Virginia. Should the decision stand, “it would be a landmark among landmarks”....
...“They had a bad time in the 1980s, but I love the 1920s and 1930s era, which are very Duchess of Devonshire and W Somerset Maugham. It’s really all about context.”...
...Final axelhttps://twitter.com/skatingarchive/status/1715927258207305905 The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating circuit kicked off last weekend with Skate America in Allen, Texas (more Texaissance!)....
...“There are huge implications financially,” said Allen Koh, founder of Cardinal Education, an admissions consultancy....
...This sweeping work by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an expert on the Holy Roman Empire, will stand as the definitive study for many years to come....
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Changeby W David Marx, Viking £25 From the Tokyo-based author of the excellent Ametora: How Japan Saved...
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter, Viking £18.99 Barbara F Walter, a professor at the University of California, draws on examples such as Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Myanmar...
...Jones Day has hired W. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker as partners in its Minneapolis office. Folk joins from the Department of Justice. Parker was hired from the law firm Stinson....
...In a 2013 interview with University of Virginia professors, Karl Rove, senior adviser to former president George W Bush, recalled Alito on edge during the interview that would determine whether the White...
...The store has enjoyed a strong reputation since the early 1980s, and inside I found a vintage Air-King, like the one my wife had tried on in Santa Barbara....
...Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategyby Henry Kissinger, Allen Lane £25/Penguin $36 Now aged 99, Kissinger is still writing books....
...It’s the ordinary public who are tricked by Big Oil / From Barbara Mullarney, London W3, UK Why do institutions still resist fossil fuel reductions?...
...As the University of California’s Barbara Walter shows in her bracing manual, How Civil Wars Start, US democracy today is checking all the wrong boxes....
...Prigozhin had set up a string of fashionable restaurants, and won the attention of the new Russian president Vladimir Putin, who asked him to cater dinners for visiting foreign leaders including George W...
...Thomas Griffith, a retired federal appeals court judge appointed by George W Bush who introduced Jackson, said that while they did not always agree on the outcome of cases, “I respected her diligent and...
...A wave of openings and excitements presents a fresh chapter for Edinburgh, including a David Chipperfield-designed concert hall, a W hotel, blockbuster shows at the wonderful Scottish National Gallery of...
...“Gas taxes are too politically fraught to be a pillar of climate policy,” said Paasha Mahdavi, a political-science professor at the University of California Santa Barbara....
...You can see the group’s influence today in the polychromatic architecture of practices such as Ben Allen or WAM Architecten in the Netherlands....
...For anyone trying to get up to speed on Thursday’s criminal charges against longtime Trump consigliere Allen Weisselberg, I highly recommend my colleague Joshua Chaffin’s recent deep dive into Weisselberg...
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