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...dealer, which recently exhibited the works of artist duo M+M....
...I’m staying at the Kärntnerhof, rustic three-star lodgings on the edge of town....
...Investment banks are going through a relatively barren patch of M&A this year, which has resulted in thousands of job cuts and bonus reductions that are likely to continue....
...When, in June 2010, we were married in the town hall, the whole village turned out to throw confetti, and I’m now stopped in the street by elderly ladies sweetly asking after tu marido....
...poem by Walt Whitman; Molly Joyce’s haunting “East River,” to Christopher Oscar Peña’s text; and “Lumee’s Dream” by Ellen Reid, libretto by Roxie Perkins, from their Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m....
...I find this just kind of unbelievable, as I’m sure many British and European readers will....
...The historic 20,000 sq m venue, home to Mikhelson’s philanthropic V-A-C Foundation, opens early in December....
...I never used to worry about memory in the Bach suites and now you’ve put the idea in my mind, I’m terrified.’”...
...“God, I’m even wearing the same suit,” he says looking down at himself, bemused....
...As I’ve written in the past, I’m far more worried about the political power of Facebook than the power of a group of rag-tag guys with a Confederate flag....
...“I’m not going to put a carbon tax on people. I’m not going to increase their electricity prices and their costs of living....
...George has taken over from Helga Bollman Leknes who "decided to leave the company after two years, following changes in Norwegian's top management team"....
...I’m staring at Heidi Bjerkan across her restaurant, trying to work out why I recognise her, and it dawns that she looks like Andrew Wyeth’s portrait of Helga Testorf — not just the colour of her skin and...
...“I’m still investing in it,” he says, though he jokes that “my Christmas presents just might not be as generous this year”....
...Glocks cocked and locked. Survivalism is an undiluted cocktail of solipsism and fear. Its adherents are — undoubtedly — bananas. But. Pause to wonder. At the state of foreign affairs....
...Letter in response to this article: Prevention of Alzheimer’s is the way forward / From A David Smith and Helga Refsum...
...I’m not sure. I look around, feeling unduly guilty. “Who me?” they continue. “Not you?” they opine. It’s about as existential as a tannoy announcement can get....
...I order chicken and waffles followed by Helga’s meatballs, Samuelsson’s grandmother’s recipe. I ask for a beer while Cole orders a New Zealand sauvignon blanc....
...I’m holding on to the de Vilmorin theory until refuted. B-612 is one of di Robilant’s many digressions....
...“William Glock [the celebrated BBC Proms director and champion of modernism] talked about Charles Ives. I knew nothing about Ives’ music but I was very excited by what Glock said.”...
...M Train, by Patti Smith, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25 The sequel to Just Kids opens with Smith in a café with a notebook, wondering how to write about nothing....
...“I’m desperate. I miss her.”...
...Governance-related issues can be especially important when investing in Asia, says Matthew Vaight, manager of the M&G Asian fund....
...In two or three years, I’m sure they will be dissolved.” But there’s little evidence to corroborate that and plenty to show that they’re digging in for the long haul....
...“I’m not going to spare them.”...
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