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...Caspar David Friedrich in Germany To mark the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth, Germany has designated 2024 the Year of Caspar David Friedrich (caspardavid250.de)....
...Alden, a new Rusalka by David Pountney and a De Chirico-themed Tosca from Keith Warner....
...G-clamp This tool is a classic for a reason: it’s simple, strong and the old steel and cast-iron ones are things of beauty....
...He also made Dreams (1990), a haunting episodic film with one section featuring Martin Scorsese as Van Gogh....
...And as the FT wrote last week, Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden has been holding back. He’s not alone, it turns out....
...David Page: Yes....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...four floors of a grand 18th-century building on historic Broad Street, began as an academic retailer, and has sold university reading materials to everyone from Margaret Thatcher to JRR Tolkien: Ulric van...
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren, London Polymath 1,034: Peter Van...
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...David Phillips has moved to Parametric as a director for liability-driven investment strategies....
...His shop was near Hester van Royen’s gallery, and Hester and I had just started dating....
...Thursday night’s season-opening New York Philharmonic gala in David Geffen Hall was clearly meant as a statement. It was Jaap van Zweden’s first concert as the orchestra’s 26th music director....
...The gold may be long gone, but gold probably never tasted as good as a fresh, citrusy G&T at the end of a day in the saddle....
...For now Mr van Beurden is betting that Shell has made the right calculations....
...It’s the first time I’ve seen this mighty natural wonder from the air, and it is from this vantage point that David Livingstone’s famous description — “scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels...
...• Margaret Ammon, above, has moved to M&G, the £351bn London-based investment manager, as chief risk officer. Ms Ammon joined from Colonial First State....
...With his hands stiffly by his sides and dressed in a black suit, he looks like an anonymous G-Man come to investigate the casino bosses....
...She had been forgetting to eat and drink, preferring a good G&T with her friend instead! There are good days and bad days....
...The other fund manager chosen is M&G Investments, the fund management arm of Prudential, the insurance company....
...Bond investors should brace themselves for a rise in the US budget deficit and a turning on of the fiscal taps, says Jim Leaviss at M&G Investments, We know very little about Trump’s economic policies,...
...Sachin Oza and Stephen Williams both moved to the London-based fund manager from M&G Investments....
...But the result ison a knife edge and the Green party’s Alexander Van der Bellen could easily prevail. It’s down to postal votes....
...Rochester and Strood, a parliamentary seat that could have been named by P.G. Wodehouse, was soundly Conservative until last night....
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