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...A maître d’ led him to a prime table in a dining room cluttered with wealth. Mechanic slipped into storytelling mode....
...But we know from founder Nancy Jacobson’s formidable fundraising skills that the group has more than enough resources to get on the ballot....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...But by the end of this series, I’d had a minor change of heart....
...But where there was animosity between the two leads in the latter, here there’s an immediate, irrepressible spark between Carson and her alluringly free-spirited teammate Greta (D’Arcy Carden)....
...Canard à la presse comes from Rouen in Normandy and it’s also a speciality of the Tour d’Argent restaurant in Paris....
...In the computing world, they’d call this vapourware — software that’s advertised to the public but hasn’t actually been made yet and might never be released....
...Roberta Jacobson, Joe Biden’s adviser on the south-west border and Juan Gonzalez, the top diplomat on western hemisphere affairs in the White House’s National Security Council, would travel to Mexico on...
...“People who . . . have never spoken with a surrogate before have these deep assumptions about it,” says Heather Jacobson, the author of Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies....
...“We were very anxious about how they’d react,” says Jon Cleborne, head of PAS. “But to their credit they were very confident about their value-add.”...
...At a recent conference attended by DD, one manager told us she’d been stood up by several investors with whom she’d arranged to meet, without notice....
...An alternative approach from the author Ed Jacobson starts with a reminder that life is about more than money....
...D’Herbelot’s encyclopedia exhibited the kind of pioneering research that transformed European understanding of Islam and the Arab world....
...I’d like to be home to see the seasons changing over a year in Calcutta. I suppose I am only half-satisfied....
...“Frankly, we’d rather see this deal go through than Icahn wrecking the business and trying to make a quick buck,” said a long-term investor who asked not to be named....
...By the time he left office, that had risen 72 per cent to 8.8m b/d. Chart of the week This is from a piece that I wrote this week....
...“He [Rogers] had great difficulty in getting around the stage and acknowledged that, at almost 80, he shouldn’t be performing any longer, but that he’d been divorced four times and needed the money!...
...Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 28 Duke St, London SW1 (jacobsongallery.com) And the thing I’m eyeing next is a new kitchen from Plain English....
...If this guy only did the stool with the wheel thing, I’d worry about him. But he has range.” Elsewhere Jacobson talks to curators and historians who provide the necessary context....
...Stitch together all the passages that lacerate not only Trump but the polity that elected him and you’d have a fierce, bitter tirade with moments of brilliance — an essay for the likes of Prospect or Harper...
...On Sunday, we’d do the same thing again.”...
...pursuing broad master narratives sweeping half a century, he focuses mostly on the years 1914-18 and how that period shaped the political thought and fortunes of David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D...
...By contrast, Osei baffles his new classmates by recapping Ghana’s coup d’état in 1972. His presence in this homogenous environment causes friction....
...While Icahn said he would not oppose a possible Xerox-Fuji merger (as reported by the WSJ), he said the current Xerox leadership are “ill-equipped” to negotiate it, and he’d oppose any deal that kept “old...
...The change, which Mr Jacobson called a “clean-up of unintended consequences”, allows US companies to pay the FSB for the needed permits....
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