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Silvio Berlusconi
Berlusconi’s Sardinian estate on sale for €500mn
...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...
January 31, 2024
The Art Market
Collectors adopt a more cautious approach
...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)...
November 2, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ExplainerLaw
Are US presidents above the law?
...“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”....
February 6, 2024
ReviewFiction
A Spell of Good Things — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s heart-rending second novel
...initials will be W.C....
February 3, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Fiction
...Demon Copperheadby Barbara Kingsolver, Faber £20/Harper $32.50 Barbara Kingsolver’s updating of David Copperfield — Dickens’ most autobiographical novel — relocates the action to Appalachia to tell the...
November 24, 2022
The Big Read
Ron vs Don: the Republican battle for 2024 has already begun
...“I think below the surface, there is a sort of coming-to-Jesus moment among some Republicans that Trump is just not going to get it done in 2024, and they need to go in a new direction,” says Brad Coker,...
November 11, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
News in-depthSupreme Court US
Alito cements status as linchpin of Supreme Court’s conservative wing
...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...
May 5, 2022
FT Magazine
I tried to buy a Rolex and fell into a grey market for luxe watches
...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....
December 23, 2022
ReviewFT Books Essay
Is America heading for civil war?
...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....
May 31, 2022
Supreme Court US
Biden’s Supreme Court nominee emphasises ‘neutral’ approach to cases
...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...
March 21, 2022
Travel
Gleneagles’ big move to the city
...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...
June 13, 2022
US politics & policy
Biden’s petrol problem: president eyes gas tax cut as pump prices soar
...“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....
February 16, 2022
FT Magazine
In 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious today
...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
February 26, 2022
ObituaryColin Powell
Colin Powell, US general and statesman, 1937-2021
...When the offer came from George W Bush to be secretary of state, the temptation was irresistible....
October 18, 2021
The Weekend Essay
Siri Hustvedt: 9/11 and the American psyche
...On October 11 2001, President George W Bush declared: “The attack took place on American soil, but it was an attack on the heart and soul of the civilised world.”...
September 10, 2021
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
HTSIThe HTSI Autumn Arts Issue 2021
Anatomy of an art fair. Which type are you?
...The BSDs (Big Swinging Dealers) …or Dealmakers, as you prefer: Larry Gagosian, Marian Goodman, Arne Glimcher, Bill Acquavella, Barbara Gladstone and their ilk – past and present kingmakers, of artists and...
September 24, 2021
Robin Lane Fox
The ‘big data’ of botany
...In a fine new book*, Barbara M Thiers, longtime director of the New York Botanical Garden’s huge herbarium, traces the emergence and changing uses of herbaria worldwide....
February 12, 2021
FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
Best books of 2020: Politics
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
November 18, 2020
News in-depthThe Big Read
Biden gambles on placing climate change at heart of US energy policy
...“The plan is very bold,” says Leah Stokes, an expert on climate policy and a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara....
August 17, 2020
Beauty
The best new beauty products of 2019
...The spa at the W hotel in Leicester Square isn’t particularly luxurious, though, so go for results rather than a treat....
December 12, 2019
FT Magazine
A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender
...Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, Washington, DC, May 7 1976; Elliot Richardson, commerce secretary, Washington, DC, May 4 1976; George McGovern, US senator (South Dakota), Washington, DC, March 1 1976; W...
January 31, 2020
Global InsightEdward Luce
Running down the clock on Trump is a risky bet
...Until the day she died, Barbara Bush kept a clock next to her bed that counted the days until Donald Trump was gone. The former first lady’s timekeeping was upbeat: she assumed a one-term presidency....
July 4, 2019
George HW Bush
George HW Bush remembered as ‘great and noble man’
...His death follows the passing of his wife Barbara in April. Follow Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter: @dimi...
December 5, 2018
ObituaryUS politics & policy
George HW Bush, 41st US president, dies aged 94
...He married Barbara Pierce in 1945 and they had five children. The couple had the satisfaction of seeing their eldest son, George W Bush, win the presidency....
December 1, 2018
ObituaryUS politics & policy
Barbara Bush, former US First Lady, 1925-2018
...But the turmoil of George W’s two terms, exemplified by the catastrophic war in Iraq, hurt Jeb’s chances....
April 18, 2018

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