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...Soon Lucy Lou (Lee Braithwaite) has dumped the skirts and become plain Lou, the sheriff (Paul Hunter) has kicked the booze and slipped into silky skirts and Miss Lillian has fallen head-over-heels in love...
...“Shoes are very complicated to make, with a lot of different components,” says designer Nicholas Kirkwood. “These come from all over the world – there’s a big environmental footprint on that side....
...Additional reporting by Nicholas Megaw...
...Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has apologised for the IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten more than 40 years ago....
...In the US, the major supplier of corpse clothing is a brand called Ethel Maid. Every year it shifts tens of thousands of gowns and suits that look like they’re from a Victorian period drama....
...The mythological crooner of deathly Xhosa lullabies, created by the Capetonian Nicholas Hlobo for the 2011 Venice Biennale, is among the art the museum aims to preserve for the continent....
...The narrative is initially shared by Silas and Ethel Woodlock, their stolidly Dickensian name reflected in the workmanlike prose that the couple employ....
...It’s the place, he said, “where Lutèce, the great New York French restaurant, meets Lou Reed”. As a fan of all three, I could not agree more....
...In a recorded message, Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics, recalled how he and former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz conceived the idea for the Brics bank at Davos...
...“I intended to fill them all but then Lou Davies of Box 9 Design said that I shouldn’t, just leave them blank. The food, and the memories it conveys, should be the main attraction.”...
...Joining their ranks of these commerce-minded clever designers is Lou Dalton, who is growing with considerable pace....
...Nicholas Colas at ConvergEx Group asks: “Are investors ready to focus on fundamentals again, rather than simply swimming in the Fed’s wake? Hard to say.”...
...“Fund managers used to do their own accounting before they started to outsource it and now it’s called fund accounting,” says Lou Maiuri, global head of outsourcing at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing....
...Lou Ford likes to hit women. He sometimes likes to hit them to death. Love gets him that way....
...“Plenty of macro concerns weigh on the markets, but analysts clearly see positive, and accelerating, corporate fundamentals for the first half of 2010,” says Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx...
...When we spoke to Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC’s founder, last week he told us he had just attended a meeting to kick off OLPC America, based out of New York and Washington....
...“There are lots of flashing amber lights,” says Nicholas Lardy, a China economy expert at the Peterson Institute in Washington....
...Corn reunites Burton with the director Nicholas Martin....
...OLPC lost its chief technology officer this month when Mary Lou Jepsen left to start her own low-cost laptop company. Pixel Xi is aiming for a $75 or even a $50 laptop in the next two to three years....
...● The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s latest bestseller about how we underestimate at our peril the risk of highly improbable events....
...Acquiring the rights to such assets – dubbed “lan wei lou” in Chinese, which means buildings with a “rotten tail” – can involve convoluted and lengthy legal disputes....
...The career of Johnny Cash, the American journalist Nicholas Dawidoff once wrote, “vacillated between Saturday night and Sunday morning, between debauchery and devotion”....
...In Vice, Lou Dubose – a reporter who has previously taken aim at Republican icons George Bush, Tom DeLay and Karl Rove – and Jake Bernstein, set out to depict how Mr Cheney’s has become the most powerful...
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