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...As spring swells, so too do publishers’ fiction lists, and among them this year is Andrew O’Hagan’s bravura piece of storytelling, Caledonian Road (Faber & Faber, 22 hrs, 51 mins), read by actor Michael...
...Asked whether the investment screening agreement could harm Mexico-China business relations, Finance Minister Rogelio Ramírez de la O was blunt....
...“It is important that the banking sector continues to make a contribution to the Irish economy following the support they received during the financial crisis,” finance minister Michael McGrath told the...
...Among those detained was Joselit Ramírez, who led Venezuela’s cryptocurrency regulator and was indicted on money laundering charges in 2020 in the Southern District of New York, accused of helping El Aissami...
...Stu Loeser, who was a spokesperson for former mayor Michael Bloomberg and now advises technology and financial services companies, saw peril for Adams....
...The justices’ decision, in the case of Thaler vs Vidal, leaves in place two lower court rulings that only “natural persons” can be awarded patents....
...Emanuel picked up another aptly named work, “Stairway to the Stars” (c1962), from a solo booth of the late African-American painter Bob Thompson at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery....
...But Bronowski’s grave one-hour appearance on the Michael Parkinson show in 1974 to promote his series ranks among that interviewer’s most memorable occasions....
...The cartoon by Michael Ramirez, for example, was apparently published in the April 7, 2008, edition of Investor’s Business Daily....
...That bifurcation is evident as “luxury, in general, is doing really well”, said Jessica Ramírez, senior research analyst at Jane Hali & Associates....
...For me it has very much felt like being this guy (from Michael Ramirez’s Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.)...
...Silvia Ramírez, a 62-year-old pensioner in Buenos Aires, has started working again because her pension has been “crushed” by inflation, but she still struggles to cover even basic costs as prices keep spiralling...
...But today we made a first step towards change,” said opposition politician María Eugenia Vidal, who won the most votes in the national congressional primary in the city of Buenos Aires....
...“The effect on the president’s image is irreversible,” said Thiago Vidal, a political analyst at the consultancy Prospectiva....
...Vidal described the events as “unprecedented” since the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s....
...The opening to the private sector will also begin to take hold and some benefits could be seen from the devaluation,” Vidal said....
...A vicious police attack on Basquiat’s street-artist friend Michael Stewart brings matters to a head. The two leads are superbly physical....
...Most economists here do not believe that his decision last week to switch finance minister and appoint longtime ally Rogelio Ramírez de la O, 72, will change this....
...The farmhouse had recently been transformed into a villa by the architect Henri Vidal, and Carmignac set about acquiring the property with its 15 hectares of land not long after his friends’ vows had been...
...Thiago Vidal, a political analyst at consultancy Prospectiva, said Araújo’s resignation was the result of dissatisfaction not only among politicians but also the business lobby and investors....
...Thiago Vidal, a political analyst at consultancy Prospectiva, said there was little public appetite for more restrictive measures. “Bolsonaro is not going to change,” he added....
...Additional reporting by Michael Stott in London...
...The group, which is controlled by Russian heiress Margarita Louis-Dreyfus and is one of the world’s biggest coffee, sugar and wheat traders, said chief operating officer Michael Gelchie would replace Mr...
...As well as producing the poet Siegfried Sassoon, the family can boast Rachel Sassoon Beer, editor of both the Sunday Times and the Observer (though hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is, sadly, no relation)....
...“It will end up reducing their expenditure,” said Christophe Vidal, deputy chief executive of Natixis Coficine, which lends about $1bn annually to the television and film sector....
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