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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Much of Chicago had to be physically lifted in 1858, block by city block, to make room for sewers....
...For most of the 30 years the late art dealer Hudson — whose refusal to divulge his first name was but one of his eccentricities — operated the gallery Feature Inc, initially in Chicago and then New York,...
...Al Aswany’s Chicago was named by Newsday, the US newspaper, as the best translated novel of 2006. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and published in more than 100 countries....
...The construction of the Burj Al Arab by Dubai Holding, owned by the ruler of Dubai, kicked off a string of other ritzy and ambitious construction projects....
...Aviv as a “Bauhaus” Modernist city as a means of differentiating it from neighbouring Jaffa, portrayed as a dark, shady city of the Orient....
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...… Danah Boyd Author of ‘It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens’ (Yale) Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (University of Chicago Press) brilliantly deciphers...
...In the city I go to Le Michel’s and in St Emilion there’s a brilliant restaurant on the top of the hill, L’Envers du Décor, which is one of those ones which you discover by accident....
...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...
...Most famous, however, are the numerous works by Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso et al, who dined here and donated works in lieu of paying their bills. …………………………………………………………….....
...Indeed, one of the biggest US-led technology innovations of recent years – the invention of credit derivatives that emerged from options research at the University of Chicago and was used to package subprime...
...The design of Beit Falasteen was first conceived in the US when al-Masri was 19 years old. “Back in 1953, I was working 16-hour shifts in Chicago to pay for my next semester at the University of Texas....
...The Fed also granted approval to Agricultural Bank of China to build a branch in New York City, and to Bank of China to build a branch in Chicago – its third US branch, reports the WSJ....
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...We should follow the example of a New York City nurse named Menchu Sanchez....
...Both of his novels, The Yacoubian Building and Chicago (2007), feature outstandingly creepy fundamentalist characters....
...cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco....
...The city looked no worse than Edinburgh on a wet day. The worst storm to hit the East Coast since 1938 had gently passed New York by, leaving only devastated television hosts in its wake....
...There have been a number of court cases over the years concerning such fakes, with the latest coming from Chicago....
...San Francisco and Chicago score more highly than New York: the Metropolitan stalls are afflicted by the blight of air-conditioning, and the State Theater, with which City Opera has long been associated,...
...A judge in Regina v....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...The latter category includes the Fulbright scholarships, for British citizens studying in the US, and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation fellowships, available to students from the Middle East at...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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