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...Few people were more clear-eyed about how reactionary it all sounded, than the Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that 20 years earlier “all the school books” put the global division of labour and...
...Now, we are all feeling, as André Leon Talley said, “It’s a famine of beauty.” A good gift for the home all depends on who it’s for. Svenskt Tenn do the most beautiful placemats....
...But there is much further to go, said Naomi Duncan, chief executive at Chefs in Schools. The quality of school food is barely monitored, she argued, while the government budget for school meals is low....
...That could include more stimulus or a tax holiday, said Duncan Wood at the Wilson Center think-tank....
...Duncan Minty, a consultant specialising in insurance and ethics, told a recent industry event that insurers should be asking themselves tough questions....
...Thursday’s gig, titled “Harlem-Kingston Unplugged”, was augmented by trombonist Dennis Rollins and Leon Duncan doubling on guitar and electric bass, but the performance began with just the trio playing four...
...Alex Hoctor-Duncan has moved to Standard Life Aberdeen, the $735bn Edinburgh asset manager, as global sales director and head of distribution for Emea. Mr Hoctor-Duncan previously worked for BlackRock....
...Tanja Alemany Sanchez de León, spokeswoman for the German economics ministry, said on Wednesday that the release of such funds was already conditional on countries’ carrying out certain structural reforms...
...Mr Bongo told AFP: “They fear the candidate Ali Bongo because he, after all, has a satisfactory record . . . and they have no chance of winning. ” Rival Leon Paul Ngoulakia, one of 13 people challenging...
...“At a time when so many things seemed to be going wrong, the PRI received a vote of confidence — not overwhelming, but it’s still the most popular party,” said Duncan Wood, head of the Mexico Institute at...
...Duncan Hobbs of Macquarie also thinks the new rules on exports are positive for tin prices. But he says there is some “Indonesian policy risk”....
...San Leon Energy gained 6 per cent on news of a successful well test at an oil prospect in Poland, which management claimed had parallels with the 3.7bn barrel Bakken Formation on the US-Canadian border....
...“There has been quite a lot of interest in the lead market,” says Duncan Hobbs of Macquarie....
...Leon Westgate, analyst at Standard Bank, noted that prices for copper on New York’s Comex had been trading higher than LME prices, encouraging traders to move metal from LME warehouses to Comex warehouses...
...Second, he served his apprenticeship with Leon Brittan in Brussels: a senior figure in that cabinet, but a member of the team....
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...As was the patronage of Paris stage stars Réjane and Sarah Bernhardt, dancer Isadora Duncan and Margot Asquith, the fashion-forward wife of Henry Asquith, the British prime minister....
...Tony Leon, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, has demanded that Mr Zuma be charged....
...He was famously sacked as party chairman by Iain Duncan Smith in 2002 in a clumsy coup which sparked a round of internal squabbling in the party....
...He was a member of the so-called “Cambridge mafia” of future Conservative stars such as Michael Howard, John Gummer, Leon Brittan and Norman Lamont....
...Howard was the only serious candidate when Iain Duncan Smith resigned. Blair was inching ahead of Brown at precisely the moment John Smith died....
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