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February 6, 2010
Winter Olympics special: Curling
...Lycra bodystockings – just the trundle of granite across ice, and that strange...Rhona Martin delivered the final “stone of destiny” in Salt Lake City to clinch Britain’s first winter gold since Torvill and Dean’s “Bolero...I’m still a housewife and a mother of two in a small village in Ayrshire...farmers playing with stones.”The rules haven’t altered greatly since those early... By Nick Thorpe
October 10, 2009
Eccentricity, dynamism ... and heavy rock
...loomed large. In short, my impression of the UK was of a fascinating place but one that was in incredibly scruffy packaging. Life in a big city such as Birmingham, where I have lived...compared with the small-town Bavaria of my youth. In Bavaria, until not long...room silent. I arrived in the depths of winter and the weather was ghastly. It was so... As told to York Membery
November 13, 2009
Investigating Iceland’s financiers
...with Roland Dumas, following a search of the former minister’s home, 1998 From...Reykjavik’s Grand Hotel, the first snow of winter can be seen edging its way down the muddy...crisis that transformed Iceland from one of the world’s richest countries per capita...greed imported from Wall Street and the City of London. Former French minister Bernard... By Stanley Pignal and Andrew Ward
March 7, 2009
Rust Sleeps:Can We Glimpse An American Future In The Travails Of Detroit?
...aid, the carmakers are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, and heading toward failure. Detroit is bracing itself. This winter, in addition to trekking to Washington...and GM were slashing their sponsorship of cultural institutions built up in the city's golden age, including its symphony...companies, accustomed to boom and bust, haven't funded large endowments since the... By John Reed
March 6, 2009
The travails of Detroit
...aid, the carmakers are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, and heading toward failure. Detroit is bracing itself. . . . This winter, in addition to trekking to Washington...and GM were slashing their sponsorship of cultural institutions built up in the city’s golden age, including its symphony...companies, accustomed to boom and bust, haven’t funded large endowments since the... By John Reed
September 4, 2007
Subsidies ease pain of EU pressure
...snow lies on the ground for six months of the year and there are only three hours of daylight in the winter. But the flat plain around the city of Oulu, with its sandy but humus-rich...from Tyrnävä, south of Oulu. "We haven't lost our faith in farming." That... By ByRobert Anderson
November 30, 2009
Rich offerings but niggles about tolls and hotels
...breakfast just outside the city of Maribor, the conversation...a good snowfall this winter to attract skiers to the...heating expenses go up in winter,” he says. Small...sector to 10 per cent of gross domestic product...EU funds. Foreigners haven’t paid yet, they pay...Dimitrij Piciga, director of the Slovenian Tourist...Piran, a jewel of a city, had a good season. “For... By Kester Eddy
November 13, 2009
Business hubs: Bangkok, Copenhagen and Miami
...of Greenlandic dance to backstage tours of parliament. For a more traditional pastime...Founded by the brewer to house his collection of European antiquities and artworks, this museum is stunning. A haven of tranquility and calm, it is the perfect...a quiet de-stress in the heart of the city. The Little Mermaid statuette on the harbour... ByTim Johnston, Clare MacCarthy, Tom Braithwaite
April 16, 2005
The Italian blob
...where oranges are harvested in the dead of winter, and where the landscape is dominated...the regular meal-time rhythm. Half of them haven't had any breakfast - most of them never...1999 when Caroli changed the menu in one of the city's schools. "Our Children Starve from... By Ivar Ekman
October 16, 2009
Lunch with the FT: Denise Rich
...to Cannes every spring and spends most of the winter skiing in Aspen). But then there...for the general director’s council of New York City Opera]. These women and their friends have a lot of influence in many of the charitable activities... By Vanessa Friedman