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...We are the people of France,” recaps Marie-Laure’s PTSD-afflicted great-uncle Etienne (a wasted Hugh Laurie). Repeatedly, the series takes the easier option of telling rather than showing....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...The French text suits the nuanced singing and grainy voice of Matthew Polenzani, as Carlos, and is an obvious plus for the (oddly coiffed) Posa of Etienne Dupuis, the one French singer....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...Puzzle 2295 Etienne Bacrot v Wesley So, chesscom.2018. Material is level and there seems nothing decisive, but France’s No2 (White, to play) beat the US No2 with a concept several moves deep....
...Trump v Nafta is worth contemplating....
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...But then I will also watch Saint Etienne v Nice. I will watch boxers you have never heard of in Madison Square Garden’s smaller hall....
...Potus v Korus Had the North Koreans not set off another nuclear test at the weekend the big story this week on the Korean peninsula might have been the Trump administration’s odd timing in announcing its...
...The business community and foreign officials have quickly learned how to exploit the Bannon v Cohn battle in order to head off what they see as some of the most radical parts of Mr Trump’s economic agenda...
...(NYT) Finance v tech The chief executive of Singaporean lender DBS, Piyush Gupta, said his biggest rivals are not other banks but Chinese tech groups such as Tencent and Ant Financial....
...For more, readers should go to Shawn Donnan’s always excellent “Free trade” newsletter. At this point, I would normally ask Rana to counter my wilder assertions....
...Rana Foroohar: Knowledge is the new capital Why companies keep making one simple and costly mistake James Kynge: China’s corporate debt addiction The risk of boom turning to bust Brooke Masters: Debt v...
...England fans sing as they gather ahead of today’s England v Slovakia UEFA Euros 2016 Group B match in Saint-Etienne, France...
...It is opposed by Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, who hailed it as a “gold standard” for trade agreements while serving as secretary of state shawn.donnan@ft.com Letter in response...
...A handsome 52-year-old, with closely cropped hair and aquiline features, he is dressed like a Premier League football manager in an expensive blue jacket and black V-neck T-shirt....
...Next up UK pubs vs rest of corporate UK (aka England v Wales) — 2pm, BBC1 Ukraine v Northern Ireland — 5pm ITV Germany v Poland — 8pm, ITV If you were a betting man or woman Paddy Power are offering...
...Austria v Hungary in Bordeaux, 5pm on ITV Portugal v Iceland in Saint-Étienne, 8pm on BBC1 If you were a betting man or woman Austria are strong favourites to win against Hungary at 3/4 with the draw...
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...(FT) City v reserve in Canada Indigenous Canadians are the fastest growing segment of the country’s urban population as they move off reservations and reclaim their cities....
...(CPI) Number of the day 73% v 28%The proportion of remaining delegates that Sanders would need to win in order to secure the nomination, compared to what Clinton needs....
...Janet Yellen, who was then president of the San Francisco Fed, warned that a sharp V-shaped rebound in the economy looked implausible and that even a gradual U-shaped recovery was unlikely....
...Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...They were due to perform at the Etienne Rousseau Theatre, a soulless brick monolith typical of the totalitarian architecture of the Nationalists’ days in power....
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