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...Daniel Woo, an officer in China’s Ministry of State Security spy agency, pushed Frank Creyelman, a former Belgian senator, to influence discussions in Europe on issues ranging from China’s crackdown on democracy...
...Now 94 and still based in Santa Monica, architect Frank Gehry has continued creating his spectacular buildings worldwide. But as far back as 1983 he began working in set design....
...Altogether, it makes him the largest-ever donor to the Conservative party, followed by a £10mn bequest last year made by Tory peer Lord John Sainsbury in his will....
...Think of the great English poets, the illiterate agricultural worker John Clare, the hunchback ostracised Catholic Alexander Pope, the office worker who wrote down the expense of every cup of coffee — that...
...Make-up, John McKay at Frank. Photographer’s assistant, Szymon Goslawski. Stylist’s assistants, Aylin Bayhan and Patrick Rammelkamp. Production, Rhianna Rule at Palm Productions....
...And finally With a new show of his Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery in London, the painter tells our chief art critic Jackie Wullschläger why, at 92, he is more than ever acutely...
...In 3 Shades of Blue, his entertaining (if somewhat uneven) new book, Kaplan, previously the author of a biography of Frank Sinatra, sets the scene vividly....
...Frank diplomacy combined with a willingness to escalate will be required....
...(John Maynard Keynes). Both apply to Cowen in the age of AI....
...It has been a gradual demise for the gallery, which was founded by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer in 1946 and in its postwar heyday boasted the likes of Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego on its...
...The diplomatic row overshadowed a G20 foreign ministers’ meeting chaired by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro this week — with US secretary of state Antony Blinken saying he had a “frank exchange” with Lula on the...
...“I believe the future of hospitality is somewhere where the lines between bar and restaurant have blurred,” says co-owner Monica Berg. “It allows your guests to ‘have it all’ in one place.”...
...“That’s why it came as no surprise to any of us who knew him when he’d start singing his favourite song: Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’....
...TPP donated £5mn in the last three months of the year, while the company’s founder and chief executive Frank Hester made an individual donation of £5mn last May. TPP and Hester declined to comment....
...Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at estate agency Knight Frank, said: “The economic data has fluctuated since Christmas but the direction of travel for the housing market is up as mortgage rates...
...John Brace, chair of the power producer’s board of directors, has been appointed executive chair....
...Ray Boulger, senior technical manager at broker John Charcol, said: “The movement we’ve seen in gilt yields and swap rates over the last week or so is going to give lenders scope to cut rates....
...“I think he uses the theatre, almost in the way John Cage uses [silent musical piece] ‘4’ 33”’, for us to collectively experience and meditate on being in time . . ....
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...That’s why they have to react so quickly,” said Simon Gammon, a mortgage broker at Knight Frank. At the end of 2023 there was a rally in bond markets that prompted lenders to lower mortgage rates....
...Pauline’s lovers included the composer John Cage; Rudolph’s many partners were a source of contention and the couple divorced in 1940....
...It’s a literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike’s Rabbit series....
...Also, this speech by John Podesta, given last week at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, was really groundbreaking....
...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...“We are standing by, ready to not only backfill need as it arises with new F-16 builds but also any modifications to F-16s as well as training, equipment and systems,” said Frank St John, chief operating...
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