Hints and tips:
...Last week an émigré Russian emailed me from Cyprus to ask a question about Cassandra in Greek mythology and where to find seeds of tomatoes with a flavour worth sowing and growing....
...Cassandra Goad gold I Am The Master pendant, £925, and silver Elixir extra-heavy chain, £305. Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200....
...An excellent blue herbaceous Clematis heracleifolia Cassandra is one I have copied at home, and so is pearly pink Salvia Peter Vidgeon, a lovely tone in pots and summer beds....
...Cassandra Seier, head of international capital markets at the New York Stock Exchange, says the NYSE undertakes a lot of outreach. “We have members located on the ground in various regions,” she says....
...We needn’t have worried as the Swiss stepped in three times over,” says Cassandra Levene, a sales executive at estate agent Alpine Homes in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, which is popular for its upmarket...
...Gill Hornby (Miss Austen , Century RRP£12.99, January/Flat Iron RRP$26.99, April) and Helen Moffett (Charlotte , Manilla Press RRP£12.99, May) field Austen-themed novels, the first concerning Cassandra Austen...
...UK insurer L&G reckons £1.3tn of wealth is tied up in the homes of Britons over 65....
...Britain’s changing ethnic make-up, with postwar immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent, was depicted in such social realist films as Sapphire (1959), A Taste of Honey (1962) and The L-Shaped...
...High-tech equestrian facilities – solariums, horse walkers and so on – may be a deterrent, since their ambitions are more Pony Club than Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe....
...Secondary school academies funded by business people such as Sir Rod Aldridge, the founder and former chairman of Capita, the support services company, have proliferated....
...She writes about l’homme moyen sensuel: “moyen” meaning middling, earthly, that’s to say in between heaven and hell. La femme moyenne sensuelle too, of course....
...Nouriel Roubini, economist at RGE Monitor and self-confessed Cassandra of the current credit cycle, maintains that for every $200bn in bank losses, credit shrinks by $2,000bn....
...On CNN, night after night, the channel’s senior “news analyst”, Lou Dobbs, thunders out his Cassandra prophesy that America is being destroyed by its illegally arrived and unstoppably arriving hordes (principally...
...Three couples beautifully danced an excerpt from Dark Meadow and Fang-Yi Sheu was a searing Cassandra in a solo from Clytemnestra....
...Aldridge was keeping his head down on Thursday, but leaving the company he founded will be a wrench for him....
...L&G’s aggressive stance on corporate governance has contributed to their angst....
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