Hints and tips:
...For this autumn’s ball the intervening vestibule was decorated by the designer Fernando Wong from Florida....
...Created by Le Mans organisers Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Garage 56 is an entry set aside each year for something a little more left-field. In this case, it’s American....
...Even in a dull year, the Conservative party is never short of options for compilers, since its name can be applied to clues or solutions in various forms — C, CON, TORY....
...It is an opulent reinterpretation of a very old accord called a L’Origan, which was first created by Coty in a perfume bearing the same name....
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow Polymath 1,061: Georges Moroz, Bronx, NY Crossword 16,395: David Micklethwait, London; Peter Tilford, Florida...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Reading a list of recent acquisitions, Grynsztejn reels off artists from Egypt, Argentina, Lebanon and Portugal, as well as African-American artist William Pope L....
...Angel L....
...“I just got some art through,” he says, gleefully handing me a limited edition glass ashtray with the words “Walden Pond” at the bottom....
...Officials argued that they could not do this since the toxic assets are more widespread than in the S&L days, and banks are now marking their books to market prices....
...LLC; Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C.; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P....
...The planes will replace the C-23 sherpa, a 23-year-old cargo plane built by Short Brothers, the C-36 and some of the C-12s, as well as other transport aircraft, such as Boeing’s CH-47 chinook....
...Assembly and construction will be shifted over time to a former military base in Jacksonville, Florida, where Alenia will work with Boeing....
...Trompe l’oeil, a local specialty, has faded to almost nothing on the façades of many buildings, with only the ghosts of fake balustrades, fountains and statues remaining....
...Many will be instructed by Cooke’s comments on Americans once celebrated, now largely forgotten, such as Cordell Hull and John L. Lewis, Alf Landon and Harold Ickes....
...WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 - Topping the federal government’s list of costs related to Hurricane Katrina is the $568 million in contracts for debris removal landed by a Florida company with ties to Mississippi...
...A C$100m endowment campaign is currently in the pipeline....
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