Hints and tips:
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Odey famously used the Italian proverb il mattino ha l’oro in bocca, meaning “the morning has gold in its mouth”, to describe the feeling of winning. Better check that it’s not a pound coin instead....
...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...
...“[L]eaving citizens to their own devices is not the way of the Chinese Communist party,” concludes Vines in Defying the Dragon....
...Letter in response to this article: Crackdown highlights territory’s new normal / From Benjamin L Tsang, New Territories, Hong Kong...
...The US has slammed China’s plan for Hong Kong as a ‘death knell’ for autonomy, while Chris Patten, its last British governor, says the G7 must stand up for the territory’s freedom....
...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...
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
...changes to the Vatican’s bank and treasury are under way, an overhaul is still to come for the Vatican’s media portfolio, including Vatican Radio, Vatican Internet Service and the august Vatican newspaper L’...
...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....
...Chris Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of Oxford University Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour (Allen Lane) by Michael Lewis is a funny if scary description of financial disaster tourism, through...
...“If an issue concerning a French company came up at the Commission, he’d automatically be batting for l’Héxagone.” Additional reporting by Peggy Hollinger...
...Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University The late Tony Judt published two books in 2010....
...: Surviving the 21st Century By Chris Patten Allen Lane £25, 512 pages In an erudite volume, Chris Patten considers the global condition, including climate change, world poverty and nuclear proliferation...
...Young was the best liberal (with a small “l”) commentator of his generation, a fine writer and an insightful contemporary historian....
...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....
...L&G’s aggressive stance on corporate governance has contributed to their angst....
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