Hints and tips:
...Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has said Rome wants to forge stronger ties with China, even as it considers pulling out of Beijing’s controversial Belt & Road Initiative in the coming months....
...He began his career at AF Vandevorst in Antwerp in the early 2000s, returning to Milan to join Gianfranco Ferré before working at Gucci under Frida Giannini and, later, Alessandro Michele....
...Titillatingly, they also charged eight celebrities who had endorsed Sun’s various crypto wheezes without disclosing they had been paid to do so (aka pulling a Kim Kardashian (not, not like that))....
...From that, images will emerge, pulling cosmic shadows into focus, including, they hope, evidence for or against the existence of a chain deep inside the rock....
...In May, when Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele announced the brand would be pulling out of Milan Fashion Week and rejecting seasonal shows for the foreseeable future, no one imagined the Italian...
...Of these, Michèle Flournoy, a former under-secretary of defence, was widely tipped to get the job....
...Italian author Michele D’Ignazio’s quirky tale is as sweet and silly as a candy cane....
...“We are definitely on a Japanification path as monetary policy has been pulling most of the weight, and there are a lot of unintended consequences from low interest rates,” Mr Gallo said....
...Last season, with Prada pulling out to show in Shanghai, Milan’s menswear fashion week seemed to be under threat of extinction; yet this time, there was a sense of a turnaround....
...While fixed income mutual funds still held the lead over bond ETFs, pulling in $60bn more over the year, the scales were tipped in the other direction for stock funds....
...“I love seeing what Alessandro [Michele, of Gucci] has done, and Hedi [Slimane] and Raf [Simons].”...
...Quantitative easing has been the dominant post-financial crisis theme for markets, pulling bond yields down to record lows — even shattering old laws of finance to drop into negative territory....
...“This is getting significant attention and we will be pulling all the levers,” said one senior boardroom figure....
...The Art Newspaper recently published a front-page article about Italy’s art export laws, and as Michele Casamonti of Tornabuoni explains: “It’s a real problem....
...Republicans immediately criticised Mr Obama’s decision to set a timeline on pulling out all the troops – just as he did in his 2009 speech at West Point which outlined a “surge” of troops into Afghanistan...
...“Lots of watchmakers are pulling prices down a bit to make sure they are competitive. This trend was already there [at SIHH] in Geneva, and I can imagine that Baselworld will confirm it.”...
...Conductor Michele Mariotti makes clear from the opening bars that this is his Traviata, with a raft of unconventional tempi which he argues convincingly. The orchestra plays well for him....
...While the Tea Party movement, religious conservatives and other elements of the Republican right fell in and out of love with Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, who technically...
...Indeed, the pool of contenders was in flux on Wednesday, with Ms Bachmann pulling out of the race after finishing in sixth place in Iowa....
...That came on top of governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi pulling out, likewise a man of some gravitas albeit with baggage, and also Mike Huckabee, now too comfortable as a Fox News programme host....
...A majority of Americans is not going to vote for Michele Bachmann, he insists. “They’re not going to vote for crazy.”...
...Charbonnet, Anna Stéphany and Péter Fried; and virtuoso organist Simon Preston, pulling out all the stops in his tumultuous organ solo – truly a mighty noise....
...The unwieldy opening allegro unfolded with rare coherence: no spotlighting of big tunes, no pulling- about of tempo....
...“The transition of security to the Iraqi security forces was probably, in hindsight, premature in the sense that the Iraqi forces were not ready to step into the vacuum and fully take charge,” said Michele...
...Meanwhile, over at Obama headquarters, fundraisers are pulling out all the stops....
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