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...In other news, a reshuffle of ministers in London means Britain has a new trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, in place of the ebullient Liz Truss....
...When I think back to the trip I took to Tate Britain in early December to see Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s captivating survey, I feel quite lachrymose....
...Last week Mediobanca acquired a 66 per cent stake in the French corporate finance boutique led by former Vivendi boss Jean-Marie Messier....
...Madame Marie will soon be out on the lawn to greet him with her basket of stale kougelhopf at the ready....
...And finally: so Gagosian won the dispute with Qatar over Picasso’s portrait bust of Marie-Thérèse from 1931....
...Letter in response to this report: Bottling the essence of the beautiful game / From Jade Marie Bajai...
...Like Jean-Marie Messier of France and Juan Villalonga of Spain, Middelhoff saw the internet as a vehicle to build global media empires....
...Lisa Marie, a mother from Picton in New South Wales braved the rain to watch on a giant television in Sydney. “I wish I was there but this is the best it can be for me,” Ms Marie said....
...In other words: the new foundations may actually live up to their billing....
...Laurent Pelly’s direction is crisp and exuberant, and is well served by Marie La Rocca’s massive set, which dwarfs human beings in their materialistic frailty and egotism....
...Indeed, composer Steve Hui’s programme remarks come after the director’s and librettist’s, his billing underneath the featured singer....
...Sharing top billing with the stones are “magnificent jewels of important historical provenance”....
...La Réserve is billing itself as a destination spa; according to Vincent, it seeks to be taken as seriously as places such as Thailand’s Chiva-Som....
...Jean-Marie Le Pen famously exploited the “anti-politics” mood of French voters in 2002, coming second in the presidential poll....
...Friedman, Billings, Ramsey analyst Paul Miller said if Bank of America did not abandon the deal it faced $20bn-$30bn in writedowns on Countrywide’s home loans....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac headed lower after Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Paul Miller said the government-sponsored mortgage lenders each needed to raise $20bn in fresh capital....
...He has also been accused of defrauding Hollinger investors by billing the company for elements of his extravagant lifestyle, such as the use of a corporate jet to take his wife, Barbara, to Bora Bora for...
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