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...Slam champions Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova wrote an open letter to the WTA leadership last month, in which they said “allowing Saudi Arabia to host the WTA finals is entirely incompatible with the spirit...
...In Moscow, dozens of people lined up to lay flowers at the Solovetsky Stone, a memorial to Soviet political prisoners outside the headquarters of the FSB security service, the KGB’s successor....
...Sky-high stakes A government lawsuit claiming JetBlue’s $3.8bn takeover of Spirit Airlines would harm competition comes as a big test for the US crackdown on airline consolidation, Bloomberg reports....
...Spirits have been gaining market share for 13 years and overtook beer in 2022, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States....
...According to a retired KGB agent in Andrey Kurkov’s newly translated novel, the Soviet authorities in 1970 spread a rumour that he would....
...audience that Google’s human brains have duly considered the dangers of AI expanding very rapidly beyond the point of realistic control, but without enough specificity about the threats to dull the party spirit...
...Think of him as an assistant “M”, in Whitehall and in the field, plotting to spirit Belgium’s gold reserves from Nazi-besieged Bordeaux or to seize German cipher machines....
...“The way we’ve been treated since joining the LSE has done nothing but add fuel to our insatiable fighting spirit,” he wrote on Instagram....
...The two had become fast friends during the Kirov Ballet’s Paris tour, in spite of KGB surveillance....
...The agave-spirit enthusiast created a 41-page spirits menu, my favourites of which include La Paloma de Oaxaca: tequila blanco, mezcal joven, lime, grapefruit soda and worm salt....
...In that respect, the pugnacious spirit of the old CSFB might prove very useful to the new CSFB, after all. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...It now has some long-only strategies, but in spirit it remains a hedge fund specialises in squeezing money out of debt disasters. Vanguard makes much the same pro EM-credit argument as Gramercy....
...Financial Times The mood in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s bunker in Kyiv is sober, bordering on grim these days, and Boris Johnson’s imminent departure from Downing Street will scarcely have lifted spirits...
...He certainly does believe, true to his KGB background, that he can sow dissension among them....
...The deals hark back to the last time inflation was surging and the Fed clipped investors’ “animal spirits”....
...The USSR collapsed 30 years ago this week, but the spirit of Sakharov still hangs over us....
...And in those moments, I get answers… The holy spirit, if you want to just dwell on that, is the same thing as the Force.”...
...(Nikkei Asia) News round-up Credit Suisse securitises yacht loans to oligarchs and tycoons (FT) US budget airline Frontier to buy rival Spirit for $6.6bn (FT) Landmark Credit Suisse money laundering...
...Based on the life of the former FSB and KGB officer poisoned with polonium in 2006, it has good things about it, but they do not add up. The story is potentially a strong one....
...A brutal final quarter for some carry-generating investments may dampen spirits slightly, but a new way to compensate private equity millionaires and billionaires has emerged to lighten the mood....
...The spirit of Watergate will be missing from the televised hearings, writes Edward Luce....
...“I always saw the spirit of an entrepreneur in him. My role was to create an alternative option for him.”...
...Jemima KellyIt’s a state of cattle ranches and cowboy hats, small government and frontier spirit. Audio clipMr. Gannon!...
...A canvas titled “Maria’s Free Spirit” depicts a woman in a banana-coloured jacket; in January, poet Amanda Gorman wore a Prada coat the exact same hue at President Biden’s inauguration....
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