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...Le Surréalisme, c’est chic in Brussels I have a soft spot for the Hotel Amigo, much like I have one for Brussels itself....
...Bond suggests there is a type of renter for whom the appeal of a six-figure lease is strategic....
...Miyazaki tells stories that don’t rely on making sense of his curious worlds, or putting protagonists through straightforward A-to-B-to-C quests....
...At Kew, he has combined several, including the yellow-green stems of Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea; amber C sanguinea Anny’s Winter Orange; red C alba Sibirica; and purple-black C alba Kesselringii....
...It’s a question that’s being asked over and over again, mainly behind closed C-suite doors. A few leaders are open about wanting staff back in the office....
...Mundy’s book Race for Tomorrow is out now (William Collins, £20 / $28.99 / C$34.99)...
...(FT) Lunch with the FT Alex Younger, codenamed ‘C’ and the outgoing chief of MI6, tells FT editor Roula Khalaf why we still need “garage shed” spycraft and why he kept a jar of homemade blackberry jam handy...
...Infrastructure retains its long-term appeal for Macquarie....
...Put simply: they would only charge concentration-camp guard A if they could prove that A had helped murder prisoners B, C and D on a certain date in a certain place....
...A hardline approach might insist that something is only illegal if it has been judged so by the courts, beyond all appeal: innocent until proven guilty....
...Right Said Fred and Joan Collins. “Is she still alive?” asks Katharine Hamnett with an arched eyebrow and a mischievous smile....
...Any unusual distortions in asset prices that might intensify a subsequent correction are probably small. Domestic risk spreads aren’t obviously too low for the beginning of an economic expansion....
...But if Collins and Kimber want a conspiracy theory for a follow-up, I can offer one....
...The risk-off sentiment — fuelled by concerns that a slowdown in China will spill over to other emerging markets — has blunted a key appeal investors hoped would buoy small-caps at the year’s start: its close...
...“In Kathmandu Valley, hospitals are overcrowded, running out of room for storing dead bodies, and also running out of emergency medical supplies,” the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator wrote in a situation...
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$28 So it’s not Franzen’s finest — not up there with The Corrections (2001), say....
...It has also helped to tackle the spread of hepatitis C through infected drug-injecting needles. Other authorities on drug policy echo Talakvadze’s appeal for an end to the war on drugs....
...The risk is that worsening in living standards is delivered in advance by a sharp correction downwards in the value of sterling....
...can you buy for … C$500,000: A three-bedroom timber-framed home with a sea view C$700,000: A four-bedroom house overlooking the harbour in the village of Chester, Lunenburg County C$1.5m: A Hamptons-style...
...reduces the appeal of long-term gambles....
...“This may be just the beginning of a deeper correction in high-yield,” said Michael Mullaney, a fund manager at Fiduciary Trust....
...This is a reader appeal — just why are there so many banks working on Unicredit’s new rights issue?...
...Despite Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Washington ’s credit rating last week, US debt retained its appeal with an auction of $32bn 3-year Treasury bonds priced at a record low yield of 0.50 per cent....
...This article is subject to a correction and has been amended....
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