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...Top lot of the sale — and the last conducted by Christie’s star auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen — was St Jerome (c1653), which sold for £1.25mn (£1.6mn with fees, est £500,000-£700,000)....
...Some of it, set to David Lang, was intimate and effective, especially a duet for Rafailedes and Daisy Jacobson....
...Her Door to the Sky, by Tharp alum Jessica Lang, was full of promise, starting with a whimsical, sororal quartet of women....
...Lang....
...● Security Global Investors has hired Jerome Abernathy, formerly of Stonebrook Capital, and David Beeman, who used to work for Citi Alternative Investments....
...Lang, Seal and drum and bass pioneers Badmarsh and Shri. The well-worked showcases didn’t quite have the breadth of the CV....
...Only the music – particularly Menachem Lang’s plangent, ethereal Yiddish chant – pierces to the heart of the tragedy....
...Jérome Fourquet, political opinion director at Ifop, said Mr Sarkozy was still well ahead where it mattered most: among rightwing voters, about two-thirds of whom said they preferred him to Mr de Villepin...
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