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...M to M of M/M (Paris) Volume II is published by Thames & Hudson, £50. Their Paris and Shanghai exhibitions are on until 10 January and 18 April respectively....
...HBC is urging shareholders to support the Baker-led consortium’s C$10.30-per-share offer, even though it is lower than Catalyst’s C$11-per-share proposal....
...Menswear Illustration by Richard Kilroy (Thames & Hudson)....
...Down the coast from Bexhill, the exquisite Sandcastle in Pevensey Bay by C Evelyn Simmons is built in a similar language....
...Details Joshua Chaffin was a guest of the Equinox Hotel Hudson Yards....
...Analysts suspect Chinese companies are just getting started, the FT’s Hudson Lockett and Mercedes Ruehl report....
...Ms Prior stands out as one of only a handful of women to hold such a senior role in fixed-income investment, though Fidelity’s boss is Abigail Johnson, the granddaughter of founder Edward C Johnson II....
...Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...(i) Eminem (ii) the Rolling Stones had a vocabulary of 2794 words, compared to the Who’s 1794. 31....
...She was hired by Hudson’s Bay, a Canadian retail conglomerate, in September to oversee an overhaul of Saks Fifth Avenue, which it has bought for $2.4bn....
...Some of the most important summer opera experiences in the US are not at the better known festivals but at Bard SummerScape, north of New York City in Annandale-on-Hudson....
...For every Fifth Avenue, there’s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there’s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors....
...SPORT Compiled by David Owen Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster By Nick Ward and Sinead O’Brien A&C Black £16.99, 186 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Astonishingly vivid...
...An ingenious article posted on the Britain in Europe website claims that the late Pope John Paul II supported the treaty....
...In the 1980s, he writes, “America made the transition from the political and social arrangements built by post-World War II liberalism to the highly competitive, fast-changing and technology-oriented system...
...The Nam Theun II dam in Laos, for example, is a fairly simple economic proposition, a project expected to generate good returns in a country with few development options....
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