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...Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican congressman from Missouri who chairs the financial services subcommittee with oversight over the IMF and the World Bank, says no concessional loans should be issued to China...
...He joins from Herbert Smith Freehills. Birkenstein Capital, a new German special situations investor partnered with Davidson Kempner, will be led by Tobias Hoffmann-Becking....
...There was a crowded karaoke night on Thursday; but the hottest ticket in town was Wednesday’s party in a train station-turned-event-space where R&B singer Usher and magician David Blaine performed....
...Of those, over 10,000 have come from just one company: Arrowhead Engineered Products Inc. of Blaine, Minnesota....
...To top it all off, attendees heard stories about a late night party at an abandoned railway station where R&B singer Usher took to the stage and illusionist David Blaine wowed guests with some tricks....
...If we can’t vouch for any religious conversions, the flock of bands following his sonic lead include Big Star, The Smiths, REM, The Stone Roses and Teenage Fanclub....
...“With a lot of young men we deal with, their world is very small, very closed,” says Alan Smith, a reader development adviser for prison libraries in Staffordshire....
...For David Blaine, the Houdini-style endurance stuntman, finding truth is a matter of forgetting....
...Claude In The Country , by Alex Smith, Hodder, RRP£4.99 Absurd, quintessentially British humour from writer/illustrator Smith....
...games, should 21st-century consumers want to believe in magic, to thrill once again to such real-life “special effects” as mind-reading, sleight of hand and street magic of the sort popularised by David Blaine...
...Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Mantle, RRP£16.99, 224 pages Harden sheds light on the horrors of North Korea, with a gripping...
...stars Terrell Davis and Rod Smith to Wright’s firm, unwittingly making them victims too....
...One of the most striking pieces is a photographic sequence from the performance artist Julien Blaine who, 20 years ago, had himself filmed falling down steps in Marseille, injuring himself in the process...
...Yet it always keeps up with Smith’s stylistically innovative counterpoint and harmony. Michele Wiles, Craig Salstein, Misty Copeland, Sarawanee Tanatanit and Blaine Hoven were outstanding....
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