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...His letter to Douglas is a calm and chaotic, passionate and painful paean to forbidden love....
...Back in its gold-mining heyday it had more millionaires per capita than New York City but it is less outwardly opulent than Aspen and Vail....
...With gold prices +17% YTD at near seven-year highs, investors may imagine that gold stocks have rallied hard. And yet the GDX global gold miner index is up just +21%....
...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V”...
...Looked at from the Earth, it’s brilliantly white, coldly luminous, silver to the sun’s gold....
...There are the voyagers so crazed by gold that the Taíno natives of Quiriburi thought to please them by offering them, according to Hernando, young girls with mirror-like gold discs covering their nakedness...
...It was, though, Hynde’s show from the minute she took to the stage in sparkling gold jacket with the Sir Douglas Quintet’s “She’s About a Mover” playing over the PA....
...The centrepiece of the exhibition is a 5-metre-high gold-leaf lacquer wall panel designed by Jean Dunand for the first-class smoking lounge....
...With the introduction of six new events, including curling mixed doubles, these Winter Olympics will be the first to award more than 100 gold medals....
...In other words, it’s marketing gold....
...Prices range from $1.49m for a one-bedroom apartment to $7.87m for a four-bedroom home, available through Douglas Elliman....
...In the space of just hours it lost its three most senior personnel: Mr Miliband, Mr Balls and Douglas Alexander, shadow foreign secretary, who lost his seat in Scotland....
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...gold and reflected ad infinitum in its mirrors....
...(Financial Times) JPMorgan CFO Douglas Braunstein will be stepping down from his role sometime in the next two quarters, reports the WSJ....
...The University Terriers in white and scarlet challenge the College Eagles in gold and maroon in meetings dubbed “the greatest rivalry in all of sports” by Sports Illustrated magazine. 2....
...Forbidden desire – Rossetti’s for Morris’s wife, Wilde’s for Lord Alfred Douglas – was the driving force behind the aesthetic movement....
...E is for Eagle No Winter Olympics preview is complete without mention of British ski jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, the most hapless athlete in Winter Olympic history....
...‘Magnificence of the Tsars’ at the V&A from December 10 until March 2 2009; www.vam.ac.uk...
...In 1984, nearly 10 years after he began his investigation, he co-wrote with Douglas Botting a bestseller entitled Nazi Gold, about the Reichsbank thefts....
...Our commitment to fight non-cooperative jurisdictions (NCJs) has produced impressive results....
...The economic recovery and growth is a cooperative effort of the Central and State Governments....
...Among his bedside possessions when he died in 1564 at the age of 88 was a chest containing 8,289 gold ducats and scudi, amounting to almost 30kg of gold. His estate was worth more than 24,000 florins....
...Water polo, the semi-final: Hungary v. USSR, the two best teams in the world. Melbourne had a large Hungarian-born population....
...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....
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