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...Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C Hönes (Reaktion/ University of Chicago Press)The story of one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the 20th century reveals a man of many...
...Adrian Lester plays Britain’s first black prime minister, who ousted Boris Johnson 15 months earlier and now comes into conflict with GCHQ figures including its head of operations (Simon Pegg)....
...Separately, data from Statistics Canada are expected to show Canada’s trade surplus increased to C$2.9bn in February from C$2.62bn in January, according to a Refinitiv survey....
...John Kirby introduces his orchestra by expounding on Harlem tastes and the mechanics of a jam session — “we modulated right on through the chorus, from A-Flat to C”, says Kirby over his band’s mellow swing...
...The overlord of one of the weirdest experiments in trade policy just got in a helicopter and flew off to the strains of “Y.M.C.A.”....
...It has just secured $73m in a series C round of financing led by Tencent and TMT-focused investment firm Xiang He Capital....
...The 91-year-old, who stepped down from running his CK Hutchison business empire last year, asked Hong Kongers to abandon violent protests....
...Perhaps unsurprisingly, he would greet his customers with the words, “Hello, c***.” As the day progressed, his behaviour seems, if anything, to have grown worse....
...around the grocery scene in Hong Kong, the two local giants have a pretty cosy environment and when you look at the fresh area, the offering is not very attractive,” said Pascal Martin, a partner at OC&C,...
...Lester and Laura Lee Catron have been married 57 years and moved here in the 1970s from Oregon....
...Returning to Discovery’s purchase of Scripps, here are the facts and figures: Deal terms: $90/share Breakdown: $63 is in cash and the remainder in Discovery’s Class C common stock....
...The two paid C$1.2bn ($0.8bn) last April for a 65 per cent stake in some of the oil storage assets of Canada-based Husky Energy, which is also owned by Mr Li....
...One reason is likely to be that HNA now has representation on Deutsche’s powerful supervisory board in the form of Alexander Schütz of C-Quadrat, the asset manager which manages HNA’s stake in the bank....
...Mr Li also holds a 29.31 per cent stake in Husky, while CK Hutchison, the investment holding company he chairs, holds 40.18 per cent, according to Bloomberg data....
...CK Hutchison, the investment holding company chaired by the Hong Kong billionaire, holds a 40.18 per cent slice of Husky....
...Hutchison says consolidation is needed to provide the spectrum required to meet customer demand for mobile internet....
...Lester Lynch’s powerful baritone signified Porgy’s unexpected physical strength, although his singing was at times overly stentorian....
...Like many corporate euphemisms, “market repair” is intended to sound innocent, soothing and as rich in wholesome content as a citrus fruit full of vitamin C....
...That year the US bank was involved in OCBC’s $5bn acquisition of Hong Kong’s Wing Hang Bank and Hutchison Whampoa’s $5.7bn sale of a quarter-stake in its Watsons pharmacy chain to Singapore’s Temasek....
...“I like the story of the potential of the country more than the [actual] growth,” says Lester Tan, the Heineken venture’s managing director, who is upbeat but cautious. “It’s a long-term investment.”...
...With aaannoyiiing keys and too few apps, Google’s Pixel C is a work in progress, says Tim Bradshaw in his Personal Technology column....
...Martin Simpson, acting as compere, threw in Jackson C. Frank’s “Blues Run the Game” and Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel”, sliding up and down the frets....
...Lockheed Martin’s C-130 has few real international competitors after more than 50 years in service with the US military....
...He describes watching muffins bake in multiple trial runs and seeing every one remain stubbornly unleavened. Then, one day, a plant-protein muffin rose....
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