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...Marie-Laure Delarue, a French partner who oversees EY’s audit practice globally, was also mentioned as a contender....
...“It’s alarming that it took a new defence minister to check how many Leopard tanks we have, only now, 11 months after Russia attacked Ukraine,” said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of the German parliament...
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Anne-Marie Trevelyan, UK international trade secretary, said: “This far-reaching package of sanctions will inflict further damage on the Russian war machine.”...
...The chief protagonist was Marie Laveau, born in 1801, a beautiful Voodoo Queen who beguiled noblemen in the French Quarter with her ability to divine the content of their personal lives....
...Without a confident economy I wonder how Martha Schwartz’s 1979 bagel garden (a box-edged parterre with shellacked bagels stuck into a bed of mauve gravel in Boston) would have been received....
...This lesson on liquidity is not the same as that drawn by Friedman and Schwartz. It is more activist and much older....
...Alan Schwartz, president and chief executive, said this week that Bear’s “balance sheet, liquidity and capital remain strong”....
...French president Nicolas Sarkozy took the unusual step of expressing “full confidence” in Michèle Alliot-Marie, his interior minister, halfway through a speech to thousands of police officers on Thursday...
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