Hints and tips:
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...If you ask Marshall Wace co-founder Paul Marshall, however, that business model may be getting out of control....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...In a city that can sustain shows like the V&A’s recent Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, which had a working replica of a baroque theatre, it is easy to forget how hard it is for venerable institutions...
...There is no iron law of history that says America is immune to a systemic decadence. Nero et al did not simply grab power for themselves....
...These days, a section called Poet’s Corner — a cluster of Victorian streets named after Milton, Chaucer, Spenser et al — is a property hotspot....
...As I looked around the room at Allen, Andy et al, I thought about how they fought for the cultural and political freedoms that we enjoy today....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Andrew Hill …………………………………………………………….....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...These besuited men are talent agents and their stomping ground is the stretch of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards that links Beverly Hills with the skyscrapers of nearby Century City, the business district...
...The financial muscle of a cumulative $5,400bn in bail-out cash packed by Washington is so massive it can only be described in comparative terms: seven Vietnam wars, 23 Apollo programmes or 47 Marshall plans...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...But it must help that Barratt et al – all FTSE 100 constituents until recently – have boards with pedigree and experience....
...I fight for Bill and Sue Nebe from Farmington Hills, Michigan, who lost their real estate investments in the bad housing market. Bill got a temporary job after he was out of work for seven months....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...Critics point to Bush v. Gore, the ruling in December 2000, which resolved the disputed election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in favour of President Bush....
...The city is a ghost-town of the manufacturing Midwest....
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