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...A negative of an elm tree by William Henry Fox Talbot from 1843 serves as a reminder that photographers have long explored the territory beyond representation ($190,000, Hans P Kraus Jr)....
...“I wasn’t aware that was something a person could do,” King George III sings in the musical Hamilton, which opens in London on Thursday, of George Washington’s 1783 resignation as commander-in-chief of the...
...The S&P 500 index fell 2.2 per cent on Monday, leaving it more than 10 per cent off its high in January, the technical definition of a correction, and putting it below its 200-day moving average, a key technical...
...The cash has attracted activist interest, with Vivendi’s strategy and dividend policy criticised by P. Schoenfeld Asset Management, a US hedge fund that holds 0.8 per cent of the group’s shares....
...(WSJ) Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has reached a preliminary deal with Apollo Global Management to create one of the world’s largest television production businesses....
...(Financial Times)(Reuters) Germany’s biggest seven banks are still €14bn short of meeting Basel III capital requirements short of the capital needed to meet incoming Basel III banking rules at the end of...
...As the character Hamilton Swan puts it in Best in Show: “Don’t look at the fat ass losers or freaks, look at me!...
...Annie Lowrey and Kathleen Madigan wrote about these trends in the past week, and it seems Fox had it mostly right....
...All 10 main sectors of the S&P 500 rose with nine up more than 1 per cent....
...HMV slid 2.2 per cent to 110½p as it emerged that chief executive Simon Fox was the front-runner to take on the top job at ITV, up 9.4 per cent to 40¾p....
...So, overall, Darren Fox, partner at Simmons & Simmons, the UK law firm, believes that the FSA move will not severely curtail the practice of short-selling....
...The Hugos fled the tyrannical regime of Napoleon III in 1851, and having arrived in Jersey, set about holding seances....
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...Demos Phaidon ₤39.95, 352 pages Does for photography what Phaidon’s Vitamin P did for painting and Vitamin D for drawing....
...“I thought of Violetta dying in poverty in Paris and of Emma [Hamilton] dying in poverty in Calais.” Libiamo!...
...The start of Botin’s career was as unremarkable as that of any other young, aspiring banker - two years of clerical work at J.P....
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