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...Barbie Inc: An increasing number of films revolve around the origin stories of everyday objects. Is Hollywood’s basket of ideas finally empty?...
...Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac has the same sad premise: a person coming to terms with a disappointing life amid carefree transients and beautiful surrounds....
...I am terrified to pick it up: what if I accidentally tear a page or splutter over it?...
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...(Bloomberg) Bloomb… oh… FT header du jour, Alibaba’s Ma urges climate change in war against Tencent penguin: Although Alibaba made only one mention of this rivalry in its 345-page prospectus, Mr Ma’s 6...
...Solomon confides that his “big discoveries” in the early days were Domaines de la Janasse and de Marcoux in Châteauneuf-du-Pape before that appellation commanded the prices it does today....
...Initially, the foreign colleagues wanted to give Du Juan, then China’s top model, make-up with long, thin eyes....
...Mr Page’s question isn’t great at all. It is as hopeless as all the other things people ask applicants....
...” … A new owner seems to be in the offing for New York’s Armory Show, which belongs to MMPI (Merchandise Mart Properties Inc)....
...The annual report, incidentally, was just 32 pages long....
...However, there’s no release or notice of any planned memorial on the official web page....
...sum up the tensions as they stand, here’s a handy chart guide to what’s going on in the Middle East right now: Related links: Oil facilities on fire - FT Alphaville Bahrain’s strategic importance, graph du...
...“Our results were led by the food ingredients and the commodity trading and processing segments, both of which experienced resurgence in volatility across agricultural commodity markets,” Greg Page, chief...
...Books, RRP£16.99, 384 pages Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?...
...The bulk of its 84 pages can be summarized in one line though: “no sovereign is really safe” and there are “likely to be several sovereign debt restructurings in the euro area in the next few years”....
...I have always found their dining advice to be something like sticking a pin in the yellow pages under E for Expensive Eating. Never mind....
...Touchscreens are the current interface du jour but Greg Delagi, TI’s Wireless senior vice president, has been demonstrating how software and an inexpensive 2-megapixel camera in a phone can recognise gestures...
...From Bloomberg: Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey taxpayers are sending almost $1 million a month to a partnership run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for protection against rising interest costs on bonds that...
...With more than 19.5m monthly unique visitors and more than 5m reviews, Yelp is the local review site du jour. And with $31m in funding, the site has ambitions to expand....
...Using an online service via dedicated web pages has clear advantages for corporations, Mr Nasr says....
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...Other letters contain a “mistake du jour”....
...David Page, executive chairman, said: “We remain positive about the medium-term demand trends for the UK eating-out market.”...
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