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...as “Davos in the Desert”....
...housed in his private Fabergé Museum in the glorious Shuvalov Palace in St Petersburg, which is open to the public....
...Ajit was a leading figure of India’s hospitality industry, having opened Tata hotels on Goan beaches and in desert palaces....
...At its heart is Lee Jae-yong. The 52-year-old Harvard-educated business leader, who goes by JY or Jay, has been at the helm since his father Lee Kun-hee suffered a heart attack in 2014....
...Intrigue in the palace Jokowi is a tactical rather a strategic leader....
...Dreyfuss & Co (c2010) Mr Halfon wears his Piaget rarely for fear of losing it, so he believes it was his Dreyfuss that he wore to a garden party hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace following his election...
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...The V&A is certainly trying hard....
...François Arrighi arrived to open and manage the property, fresh from the George V in Paris (and, before that, Les Airelles, one of Courchevel’s celebrated palaces)....
...Two of the world’s most high-profile financiers have joined a growing list of senior business executives to pull out of Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” conference in the wake of the suspected killing...
...As monuments to hubris go, it’s hard to beat a ruler whose once vast empire has disintegrated into the desert’s “lone and level sands”....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The visitors were given prized silks from the Tang emperor, which they took back on camels and horses through the Gobi desert. That route became known as the Silk Road....
...At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the stars are out in force: Will Smith, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Russell Crowe and, by video-link, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel....
...This means that in highly unusual situations — Mr Urmson gives the example of a sudden downpour in a desert — a robot car may simply refuse to continue....
...Olmstead v. United States....
...A $6m gift in the mid-1990s to his son Jae-yong has since multiplied more than a thousandfold, through a controversial series of investments in Samsung companies....
...Unstructured tailoring still held a strong V silhouette, while blousons had been slashed like a Fontana. Those tracksuits were particularly desirable....
...Figures of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, stand alongside pictures of King George V....
...Even if it weren’t vaguely indecent to discuss a wife’s deserts in a corporate memo, it is tempting providence....
...No shots whatsoever of the storming of the Winter Palace, or the Long March. Lennon went on: “When you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.”...
...So when I pull up outside Las Tomasas, a restaurant overlooking the palace, dressed in full leathers and astride a hulking, thudding Harley-Davidson, the waiter looks bemused....
...The rest of the slides – including a very rudimentary floor plan for a plant in a desert location next to solar and wind farms – look like they might have been thrown together by a junior Tesla analyst racing...
...Chinese ladies were there long before them, not in sand but on the level surface of a palace garden....
...‘Memory Palace’ by Hari Kunzru is published in June (V&A Publishing, RRP£12.95). An accompanying programme featuring the exhibition will be broadcast on Sky Arts 1 HD on June 19....
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