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...“At least they’re not rats,” Janine notes sanguinely....
...Formidable old-hand Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph) meanwhile believes in making the best of what’s available....
...Instead, they argue, leaders like Viktor Orbán and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, “conceal autocracy within formally democratic institutions”....
...Another tremendous abstract expressionist, Lee Krasner, had her inaugural British museum show only in 2019 — not at the Tate but the Barbican....
...But it’s the vintage pieces – emerald rattan armchairs by Janine Abraham, rope chandeliers by Audoux-Minnet and rattan daybeds by Louis Sognot – that lure the design-world fanbase....
...Photographs: Wayne Cable; Slaven Vlasic/Getty; Frederick Breedon/Getty; David Pollack/Corbis via Getty...
...Janine Menasakanian, head of wealth for Vanguard’s UK business, agrees: “Remember that the more pounds you spend on charges, the less you keep in your pocket,” she cautions....
...lisa.pollack@ft.com...
...Shakespeare in Swahililand, by Edward Wilson-Lee, William Collins, RRP£20 / FSG, RRP$27 (Sept) A Cambridge lecturer raised in Kenya on how Shakespeare has been read in Africa and beyond....
...(FT) Abolish meetings Lisa Pollack dreams of the day she can say no to meetings....
...A consequence thereof: Lee Manning, president of R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, noted that 1,437 directors were disqualified in 2011-12 – a historically low proportion of those...
...Meanwhile, we turn to Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati’s 3-page paper on Cyprus....
...In Washington, meanwhile, there is a “wistful” feeling about Kim Jong-il’s reign, says Jonathan Pollack of the Brookings Institution....
...It is Robin de Raaff’s second opera, a bold gambit with a libretto by Janine Brogt to shed light on the blonde bombshell’s inner life....
...Jonathan Pollack, an Asia expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said it was unlikely that South Korea had received any encouragement from the US over this proposal....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas Globally, on average we are moving from recovery to expansion. But few countries are average....
...Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack’s docu-tribute to the man who made us go “wow” in Bilbao, is an 83-minute chat between old friends....
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