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...That’s really problematic for the rest of us,” said John Duncan, co-lead for the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, a group of more than 200 companies including Walmart, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal...
...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...And there’s some likeable acting from a game cast, including Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara and the obligatory Samuel L Jackson....
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...The show pays homage to “De Profundis”, the weird and wonderful 50,000-word letter the Irish poet and playwright wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while imprisoned in Reading Gaol for “acts of gross...
...“This is a big policy change,” said Alfred Johnson, co-founder of Crux. “The US is going to be more competitive in the buildout of this infrastructure. We’re going to do it faster.”...
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...Mirova manages carbon credit investment pools for companies that buy offsets to reach net zero targets, including a €50mn nature protection fund for telecoms group Orange and a fund of the same size for L’...
...The best-performing battery metal exchange-traded fund available to UK investors this week was the L&G Battery Value-Chain ETF, a mix of miners and battery manufacturers that had annualised returns in the...
...So there is a Birkenstock for every purse and purpose, in line with Alfred Sloan’s slogan for General Motors cars in 1925....
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...City law firms including Stewarts, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner have all been drafted in for claims, and BCLP partner Ravi Nayer is understood to have been hired by L...
...Classic Amsterdam, all shined up It’s not new (the original opened 125 years ago), but it’s definitely newly reborn: the Hotel de L’Europe in Amsterdam, owned by the Heineken family, has just emerged from...
...His book, L’Illusion de la Finance Verte, co-authored in 2021 with Alain Grandjean, an economist and member of the government’s advisory council on the climate, was a manifesto proposing that sustainable...
...He’ll even add an extra gloss of flamboyant virtuosity by laying down a tracery of homage to Alfred Hitchcock or Claude Chabrol....
...As they smile for the camera, a few make an “L” sign with their thumb and forefinger....
...Behind Alfred were the brotherhood — la Confrèrie de l’Ordre de la Dinde de Licques — with men in cavalier-like costumes and women in blue and white robes....
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...Consommé à l’Impérial and lamb chops à l’Orientale were on the menu, and the programme of music for that day included, with exemplary British diplomacy, a selection from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, an opera...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
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