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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Rhiannon HamamIf you’d like to go to another abortion provider, if you are an undocumented person in the Rio Grande Valley and you’re driving, when you’re leaving the Rio Grande Valley, you have to pass...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...E&V is selling a three-bedroom villa with pool near Anacapri for €2.15m....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...The show’s central installation, an impressionistic mock-up of the “Grande Descente”, the operatic stair designed to show off the sweep of ladies’ dresses, becomes downmarket Duchamp with added twinkling...
...Meanwhile the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice is home to Magister Canova, a digital show that attempts to evoke the sculptor’s vision through a multimedia installation of virtual imagery, music...
...It may be the grande dame of Paris, but it’s still got no shortage of sass....
...The dish, known as Soupe V.G.E., is still served to this day....
...Trump v Clinton in the US on Monday. Trump v Carstens in Mexico on Thursday....
...Alongside the obvious downside risks, though, he argues there are also upside risks for Central America, if the sub-region benefits from the knock-on effects of fiscal stimulus north of the Rio Grande....
...Sir, With reference to Gideon Rachman (“The clash of civilisations revisited”, November 17): the issue is much bigger than Muslim v non-Muslim....
...A grande guignol of the lissom male bodies that were a Carpaccio trademark, skewered against trees whose naked branches map the victims’ porcelain-smooth limbs, it chronicles the legend of the imperial Roman...
...England v Scotland was not much better, as the English spurned try-scoring opportunity after opportunity....
...No grande nation worth its salt would balance its budget on the orders of some bumptious bureaucratic bean-counter in Brussels....
...Working under the label “Walter Albini for …” he designed for companies such as Basile and Misterfox before launching his own Grande Gatsby collection in 1972....
...“Only a few are really into the Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV and Mark V series.” But Omega is not targeting that market....
...This grande dame of modern and contemporary art fairs is now in its 40th year and is showing no sign of ageing....
...Couldn’t cancel because BITC grande dame Julia Cleverdon v scary, like Anna Wintour with a social conscience. After Mr Blue Sky left, I helped Dave delete his madder proposals, eg....
...The transition from old values to uncensored consumerism occurs in a nanosecond as you walk on the town’s main avenue: Rue Grande. I loved it....
...For the moment, at least, New York and London remain the grandes dames of the property world....
...Cape Grace (www.cape grace.com; doubles £408) on the V&A Waterfront is a hotel that belongs to Cape Town. Following an overhaul by local designer Kathi Weixelbaumer, it is packed with period antiques....
...Fitch has also affirmed the Long- and Short-term IDRs of the five Fortis holding companies: Fortis SA/NV, Fortis N.V., Fortis Brussels, Fortis Utrecht and Fortis Insurance NV., at ‘BBB+’ and ‘F2′ respectively...
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