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...White convinced Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, brothers he knew from high school, to buy the struggling outfit for $2mn....
...Amancio Ortega, the founder of retailer Inditex, is close to acquiring McKinsey’s London headquarters for £600m, in the billionaire’s latest bet on the top end of the UK property market....
...In the run-up to M&G’s fund suspension, its valuers, Knight Frank, slashed £75.6m, or 7.7 per cent, from the value of its retail assets, which make up almost 40 per cent of the portfolio....
...You can make as much money as you want, but stay out of politics,” said Frank Mora, a former US deputy assistant defence secretary, now professor of international relations at Florida International University...
...Ortega is terrified of her boss, an affluent crook called Frank Leroy; besides, she discovers that there is the corpse of a woman in the boot of his Lexus, which she’d borrowed for a quick trip to the market...
...In the absence of such dissent, the most important and surprising thorn in the government’s side has been Luisa Ortega, Venezuela’s chief prosecutor....
...The title of a small new book by the artist Olivia Erlanger and architect Luis Ortega Govela is Garage: Hate Suburbia....
...In the build-up to the trip, Cuban cardinal Jaime Ortega gave a 45-minute TV interview, and state TV on Thursday night ran a video message to the Cuban people from Francis....
...Additional reporting by Marc Frank in Havana...
...They each offer history, location and long-established wealth, according to consultants at Knight Frank Real Estate....
...Frank de Lima, finance minister, says that even if public debt rose from $10bn to $18bn, by next year Panama’s economy would have doubled in size since the start of the administration....
...The vineyard presses 150-200 tons of grapes in a good year, using varieties of Gamay, Ortega, Wurzer and Champagne grapes....
...The recent closeness between the Catholic Church, Cuba’s largest independent organisation, and the state, officially atheist until 1992, is actively pursued by Cardinal Ortega and Mr Castro....
...Mr Carter will meet Jewish leaders and Cuba’s Cardinal Jaime Ortega before leaving on Wednesday....
...Cardinal Ortega visited the US at the end of June....
...“The church is interested in a general easing of the situation of the prisoners …including not only the sick,’’ Cardinal Ortega said....
...Mr Castro met for more than four hours with Cardinal Jaime Ortega and Bishop Dionisio Garcia of Santiago de Cuba, the head of the Conference of Bishops....
...If they were more frank, they should say might is right.”...
...has written numerous “reflections” on international issues in recent weeks, and has held long meetings with other national leaders, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega...
...Carlos Ortega Graham Secker: Emerging markets are likely to come in for a much tougher ride in 2008 than over the last couple of years and I’d expect to see some large share price swings....
...“December 2 marked the end of the Fidel era,” Frank Mora, a Cuba expert at the National War College in Washington D.C., said today. “I could not imagine Fidel giving up an opportunity like this....
...In a frank interview with the FT, Paul Trivelli said Mr Ortega was “undemocratic” and would roll back much of the advances made in recent years....
...hopeful than I was before I came,” was about all Mr Michel had to say for his visit, which included a four-hour talk with Mr Castro, meetings with other officials, dissidents and Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega...
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