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...spot The Victor....
...My decision is final on the victor on each of these questions. So a question will go to each team in turn....
...With only a single bar and a handful of chairs, The C&G has the feel of a private living room....
...“There is plan A, B, C, D,” said a person close to the executive team. “[But] no one wants to make a decision.”...
...Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat who worked for Yang, said his former boss’s diatribe was “groundbreaking”. “Chinese leaders believe they have momentum and time is on their side,” he added....
...But he also identified, famously, with his delusional heroine: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.”...
...“Those kinds of phrases to me evoke something that I’ve only heard about,” says Victor. “The police are the aggressors....
...This is the transcript of an interview between Emmanuel Macron, French president, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, and Victor Mallet, the FT’s Paris bureau chief....
...We’d committed to six loads that have been cancelled,” Mr Jackson said, adding that with more cancellations already coming in for Tuesday, losses would mount....
...“I’d say they’re making an honest effort and giving it everything. Whether that’s enough or not, I can’t tell,” said one person close to the Mexican negotiators....
...Victor Hugo later mocked the country’s 1863 constitution as written for “a nation of angels”....
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Washington raises pressure on Islamabad to rein in Afghan Taliban
...We also looked at the two busts by comparing the actual total return index against what you’d naively expect based on the preceding trends....
...“The commonwealth is in crisis, and the fact is that we will only be able to address these issues by working together,” said Victor Suarez, Puerto Rico secretary of state....
...Victor Cha, a former senior White House official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says that in the past China has applied pressure on North Korea in the immediate...
...From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C Dennett, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Norton, RRP$28.95 A philosopher sets out his theory of how human consciousness developed....
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in New Delhi...
...It’s like Victor Hugo, leaving France to complain about France. I’d rather have the conversation there. Let’s talk about something more upbeat.”...
...Conservatives such as Mr Abe — and his grandfather before him — harbour resentment towards Washington for imposing what they see as victor’s justice....
...“It is the coliseum, and we do it to see who emerges as the victor.”...
The Taliban’s threat and Kabul’s weakness make full disengagement unlikely
...A few years ago the International Energy Agency predicted that Iraq would be supplying up to 8m b/d by 2035 – implying output growth of more than 5.5m b/d....
...If political posturing proves the short-term victor, we all – businesses, consumers, governments – will lose out in the long run,” they said....
...Yeah, China may attract some QE’d euro on the hunt for higher rates but there are limits to that flow due a weakened buying power....
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