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...He also feels reassured that Val d’Isère’s snowfall is reliable....
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...I felt like I’d pedalled into the future....
...It’s interesting to contrast this song with Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”....
...In a cave beneath those cliffs Robert the Bruce allegedly saw the spider whose web-weaving labours inspired him to resume battle with the English....
...They are the “professional movers”, led by Bruce Wainwright....
...“Sound has the potential to bring together things that you’d never think would go together,” says Roland Wetzel, director of the Tinguely....
...Jonathan Haskel, professor of economics, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London I’d expect it to slow a bit, but only a bit....
...“There are more houses than there are buyers, so if buyers are prepared to shop around and negotiate hard they will get a good deal,” says Gemma Bruce of Casa & Country....
...It’d be like me trying to up my street cred by changing my byline to Pablo Escobar....
...The 14th-century church at St Monans was overflowing at his funeral: fittingly, the church was founded by King David II, son of King Robert the Bruce – Bannockburn’s victor – who is sacred to nationalists...
...Bruce Van Voorst, a former diplomatic correspondent for Time and Newsweek, compares the different approaches taken by John Kerry and Henry Kissinger in their diplomatic tactics....
...But it came after unfunded tax cuts, unfunded wars and the unfunded prescription drug benefit (Medicare D)....
...By then I’d have curled up on the sidewalk or whatever backyard he’d found me in and he’d kick my back and head and legs.”...
...POP Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock N Roll, by Marc Dolan, Norton, RRP£17.99, 592 pages A New York University professor’s academically rigorous rather than salaciously rock and roll account of...
...Pinault is a regular here and the maître d’, knowing he will not bother with a menu, suggests asparagus to start, then fish....
...A top FCC official, Bruce Gottlieb, on Thursday said that the move would have no impact on tens of billions of dollars in potential investment in communications networks by the private sector....
...FT Alphaville’s head is spinning, and it is above our pay grade to adjudicate this fight, but we’d love to hear your thoughts. You know where to leave them....
...Perhaps Cream’s “I Feel Free” (written by Pete Brown and Jack Bruce, but with a classic Clapton guitar solo). Send your comments to brian.groom@ft.com...
...“We’d hang out and watch him play,” says Serra. “We were real groupies.” In Italy Serra discovered Masaccio, Mantegna and the Siennese artist Sassetta....
...$425m 7 Bruce Kovner, Caxton Associates $400m 8 David Tepper, Appaloosa Management $400m 9 David Shaw, D.E....
...If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I’d go for the Pollock every time.”...
...A 2003 edition, signed by the photographer, Bruce Weber, was recently sold for $9,000....
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