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...As the French novelist Alexandre Dumas wrote in Le Corricolo following an excursion to Naples in 1835, Vesuvius “is not just famous, it’s popular”. And it was....
...And I think-- I don't know whether John Kerry, he was competing with you for the number of air miles, or who had more air miles, you or John Kerry. But you had a lot of air miles....
...Viacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Duma, Russia’s lower House of Parliament, wrote on messaging app Telegram that Biden’s words were “hysteria from powerlessness”....
...Ribadeau-Dumas, a former chief of staff to France’s prime minister, most recently served as deputy chief of French reinsurer Scor....
...Columnist John Gapper ponders whether a “superhero surcharge” is the right way for cinemas to recoup some of their lost revenues from the pandemic....
...In describing Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, I have often thought of a remark by John Maynard Keynes about Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the first world war: that he was an utterly...
...EU speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg Jewish religious holiday Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, begins Thursday Bahamas, parliamentary elections Friday Russia, elections to elect new Duma...
...“This is the beginning of the end of the dollar’s monopoly in the world,” Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian Duma lower house of parliament, said on Wednesday....
...“The scope and impact of this proposed regulation are not clear in many respects,” said John Buyers, head of AI at law firm Osborne Clarke....
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...He will be replaced by Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas, a former chief of staff to the French prime minister with no insurance experience....
...Equally important, as Charles Dumas of TS Lombard points out: “The combination of a plunging world market share and very high profit margins has only been possible with wage rates falling relative to output...
...As a contrast, one should admire the efforts of the early diplomat Charles Dumas, successor to John Adams, minister plenipotentiary in The Netherlands....
...This inversion of the yield curve could intensify the squeeze, says Charles Dumas, chief economist of TS Lombard, if US banks now tighten credit while lending has become less profitable....
...People could walk in and say, ‘Where is your [Jasper] Johns?’ — and we were showing Keith Haring....
...“Paula has an extraordinary eye for details and a resolute sense of innovation,” says Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermès. “She embodies the spirit of creating with integrity....
...Smiths Group’s John Crane exposure is all downstream with the significant majority of the earnings driven by aftermarket on the installed base, both helpful....
...john.plender@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Set the tone from the top on equality and diversity / From Yvonne Butler, Singapore...
...In his toothsome Dictionnaire de Cuisine, Alexandre Dumas père explicitly brought story and cookery together through the serendipity of the alphabet, so that calape — a turtle stew he cooked and sampled...
...As I roamed through Tacita Dean’s Portrait, Dumas’ words resonated....
...Charles Dumas of TS Lombard has a reputation as a contrarian, and as something of a bearish curmudgeon....
...If they have not watched him play ice hockey for the Washington Capitals, they have seen him in ads for Papa John’s pizza....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...While LVMH always claimed it had no intention of launching a full takeover, the Dumas family who own Hermès believed otherwise, and the two houses embarked on a lengthy battle over LVMH’s stake....
...MODERATOR: David Pilling, Africa Editor, Financial Times PANELLISTS: Hideki Takada, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research Kit Juckes, Macro Strategist, Société Générale...
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