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...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...A citadel surrounded by lush greenery on the edge of the city, the campus is home to a number of Ghana’s most noteworthy Modernist buildings, such as the open-sided Great Hall with its exposed staircases...
...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...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...
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Whether your flavour is pop, EDM or hip-hop, there’ll be plenty of chances to cut shapes in Chicago’s Grant Park....
...Why Rennes is a compact but lively city with universities, concert halls, museums and a vibrant food scene....
...“aerobes” floating through Tate Modern in Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall commission “In Love with the World”....
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...The frenetic pace of the city, its noise and bustle, means a little dose of alcohol at the end of the day (and occasionally in the middle) is no less than medicinal....
...But the renewal of Claridge’s is different; it is a renewal of his commitment to London, “one of the greatest cities, if not the greatest, on Earth”....
...AL_A’s current projects include the radical £42m transformation of Scotland’s Paisley Museum, due to open in 2022, which will add a red glazed entrance hall to the neoclassical building....
...It would be deeply ironic if the streaming services — Netflix, Amazon Prime et al — should be making lockdown millions from our finest acting, producing, writing and directing talent, while the very arts...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...And if Zuckerberg et al believe in community as much as they profess, why are their own headquarters and philanthropic efforts not more community focused?...
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...This is exactly what Fisher et al called for in the 1930s. This full separation is an unlikely scenario....
...In a city that can sustain shows like the V&A’s recent Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, which had a working replica of a baroque theatre, it is easy to forget how hard it is for venerable institutions...
...In some cities, the main event takes place in a trade hall, a mostly anonymous space otherwise devoted to corporate events and conferences, that communicates little about a particular culture or scene....
...She describes the brands as “idiosyncratic to the Australian way of life”, which might explain her success in standing up to the relentless march of Zara, Topshop et al....
...Awkward, then, that some of those who jumped or were pushed out (investment banker Mark Taylor, analyst Adam Lawson et al) ended up at N+1 Singer....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
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