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...Consommé à l’Impérial and lamb chops à l’Orientale were on the menu, and the programme of music for that day included, with exemplary British diplomacy, a selection from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, an opera...
...Something like the George II-style marble-topped, carved and gilded console currently on offer at Edinburgh’s Georgian Antiques. This would make the most dazzling home bar....
...These were major undertakings: a colossal bust of Ramesses II, nicknamed Young Memnon, was manoeuvred down the Nile and across the seas to London only through the genius of the great Giovanni Belzoni....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...The u/l WC outflow was £16.6m vs £3.9m last year, DSOs increased to 65 days (from 56) as an unwind in receivables was offset by higher accrued income (£57m from £51m at y/e, despite declining sales); the...
...He sold Pierre Soulages’ “Composition” (c.1952) for €450,000, and André Masson’s “L’homme ivre (l’homme libre)” (1962) for €220,000. Both works were acquired by European collectors....
...The Commons will move into Richmond House on Whitehall and use a debating chamber created by covering over the courtyard formed by the “L” of the building....
...Solvency II capital rules are particularly penal for the annuity business, which is a core part of L&G’s growth plans....
...Angel L....
...So I was interested to dig out this titbit from an interview with the new director of Qatar’s Mathaf museum, Dr Abdellah Karroum, in the French Quotidien de l’Art....
...Marc Chagall is also represented in a watercolour called “L’Ecuyère bleu au coq rouge” that is estimated to fetch £60,000-£80,000....
...Vividly portrayed is the uncomfortable figure of Edward Heath, one of the grumpiest men ever to have occupied 10 Downing Street....
...China (II): Editorial comment – A counterproductive quarrel As an economic superpower, China must be encouraged to pull its weight....
...Even Pope John Paul II cast doubt on the reality of hell, in an address in 1999....
...L’Horlogerie....
...It ends in tears with Edward VIII’s abdication....
...Ghost Rider runs out of oomph very swiftly, helped to a standstill by a cast (Cage, Fonda, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott) encouraged to talk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, like 78rpm records when someone has forgotten...
...How will the the research highlight the challenge for international groups, including Toyota, L’Oréal/Body Shop and Tesco, which have publicised their ethics more than traditional corporate social responsibility...
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
...Rosenfeld Cambridge University Press £19.99, 518 pages VISIONS OF VICTORY: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders by Gerhard L....
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