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...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...And don’t miss our FT News Briefing audio show — a short daily rundown of the top global stories....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Every bottle — Château Lafite, et cetera,” she says....
...The rape resulted in a pregnancy, and Allred returned home to the US to have an illegal abortion (this was before Roe v Wade)....
...When I read about the coup, I was confused: why then the endless pages of genuflection to Khalifa in Qatar’s newspapers?...
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...Digital news TV switch While newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting...
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...“Le petit noir au zinc”, or espresso at the bar, reading the newspaper....
...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...
...Of course, some tabloids, notably Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, are not exactly on the high ground, having admitted to illegal phone hacking of celebrities et al....
...If the deal goes through, the hotel chain will manage the latter’s proposed second luxury hotel at Worli in Mumbai, persons close to development told ET....
...Lloyd George’s closeness to the newspapers, his courtships, tantrums and bribes, were a large departure for his time and remained so for decades after....
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...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Boone Pickens et al, you have to look at their views with a jaundiced eye. After all, Mr Pickens manages a $4bn energy hedge fund. So he obviously has a vested interest in the direction of prices....
...Arzu has devoted the day’s front page to violent protests around the world against Israeli excavations near the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site....
...He bought a stake in Citigroup in 1991 at a time when the US financial services group was struggling. His 4 per cent holding is now worth about $10bn....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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