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...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...The argument is persuasive enough that she has already helped convince high-profile names such as MacKenzie Scott and Tsitsi Masiyiwa to move toward group giving....
...It’s a very political place also, in the noble sense of the term....
...Puzzle 2443 Roland Scott v Joseph Blake, Edinburgh 1920. White (to play) is queen for bishop up, but can you find his only winning move?...
...By the turn of the century, a few newly impoverished owners had downsized into smaller, more practical houses built by CF Voysey and Baillie Scott....
...Joseph Oughourlian, founder of Amber Capital (pictured), is undeterred. The stakes are high....
...And finally, a reader with the pseudonym Karl Marx proposed, inevitably, CapitaCritique of Political Economy v. 1, because, he or she wrote, there is “no better analysis of capitalism”....
...Noble Francis: There is unlikely to be a substantial levelling up in 2021....
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...Joseph Nye of Harvard argued that the oil and gas resources of the US were one crucial reason why it “still holds the aces in its poker game with China”....
...On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Joseph Jiampietro, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker in the financial institutions group, faced a lifetime ban from the industry based on the recent recommendation...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...Other works in the sale, “To the Bearer on Demand”, include those by Keith Haring, Joseph Beuys, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Scott Campbell....
...Andrew Scott, professor, London Business School Not that much — growth to slow by around 0.5%....
...Joseph Pearlman, professor of economics, City University He has wisely moved away from Osborne’s austerity policy....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...Joseph Pearlman, professor of economics, City University More pessimistic than 12 months ago Last year I thought we would remain in the EU....
...These were looted by Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon’s brother and puppet King of Spain — and recovered by Wellington at the battle of Vitoria in 1813....
...Since its renovation nearly a decade ago, the 300-seat Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macau’s Unesco-recognised historic centre has regained much of its lapsed glory....
...It too was built on a noble scale. It used such huge rocks of local granite that they had to be held in place by iron clamps....
...In fact, Mitu Gulati went and wrote an entire book on it with Robert Scott of Columbia law school. More on that, in a later post....
...The country of Adam Smith, David Hume and Joseph Black was increasingly seen by outsiders as the home of a noble savage in a tam o’shanter....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
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