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...It looked, for a brief moment yesterday, like World Cup group E was going to deliver a perfect outcome: underdogs Japan and Costa Rica going on, and overdogs Spain and Germany going home....
...“[W]e have permanently retired from this line of work,” he said in the firm’s 2021 annual report. And Ackman isn’t the only activist changing his stripes....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a holed stone with a root going into its cavity that looks like a penis, with a bit of a The Sword in the Stone vibe....
...“They’re basically locked into their apartments. They can’t go out any more,” he says of residents. Mr Yokana is now hoping to sell homes on two-acre plots that offer a sense of safety and seclusion....
...Now I live and work in a beautiful 1900 apartment in the 2nd district – it has a wraparound balcony, huge windows and 3m-high ceilings....
...I fell immediately in love with its chaotic beauty and authenticity – it hasn’t been overrun by tourists and doesn’t feel precious, like living in a museum....
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
...board that doesn’t have a director who hasn’t already experienced an activist campaign....
...Apple didn’t need that money to build a new plant or to develop a new product line....
...Carl Wilkinson Poetry Measures of Expatriation, by Vahni Capildeo, Carcanet Press, RRP£9.99/$15.99 “Language is my home,” writes Vahni Capildeo — born in Trinidad, resident in the UK, possessor of an...
...Carl Wilkinson was a guest of Simpson Travel (simpsontravel.com) which offers a week’s stay in an apartment at the Hôtel & Spa des Pêcheurs from £905 per person (based on five sharing), or from £2,225 per...
...A lack of jobs meant residents in newly-constructed Qiyan homes huddled around open fires for warmth because they couldn’t afford electricity....
...Saul Steinberg, a corporate raider who helped set the tone for a generation of aggressive financiers, died in his sleep at his New York home on Friday. He was 73....
...Peterson thinks her father’s approach worked: “My father told me, ‘Don’t buy Manolos, don’t be excessive, don’t get a second car, don’t buy a Porsche…’ I have a big, beautiful apartment and sometimes I...
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