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...The soundtrack is 1960s-70s francarabe ballads — Mohamed Mazouni’s mournful/hopeful “Chérie Madame” — and rhythm ’n’ blues....
...And eating remains another pleasure here, not least because the hotel’s restaurants are overseen by Eduardo Salanova and Ana Acín, whose Huesca institution, Espacio N, has a Michelin star....
...Violetsby Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur, W&N £14.99 Set in 1970s South Korea, this novel by the winner of the 2012 Man Asian literary prize follows San, a young florist aching to be seen and...
...Here’s RBC with the main points: Underlying EPS i n-line: FY2020 underlying EPS of 32.7p is down 6% yoy, in-line with our forecast (32.8p) and 1% below company-compiled consensus....
...On the other side, Edmond de Rothschild, a Franco-Swiss private bank and €156bn asset manager that was founded in 1953. It is bigger, younger and less famous than Rothschild & Co....
...Poetry, they will say, is the new rock‘n’roll, apparently. Again....
...“Ceci n’est pas un transport service” argued Uber. “Yes, it is,” replied an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. What is Uber?...
...Amin Maalouf, the Franco-Lebanese writer, has a phrase about minorities being “the yeast in society”. That is still true of Christians in the near east — for now. david.gardner@ft.com...
...Since Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi officially took it over at the end of 2014, SFR, as it increasingly known, has slashed costs....
...For a time, that assembly included not only the leaders of the Franco-German power axis (Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy), but also of the eurozone’s two other large economies (Spain’s Mariano Rajoy and...
...Franco and his Zambian colleague Luke Mulenga, Pick n Pay’s demand planner, take me on a tour of some of the group supermarkets....
...Actors James Franco and Seth Rogen appeared on the US television programme Saturday Night Live to promote The Interview, in which they co-star....
...Perhaps Amazon could use the system to follow the movements of pick ‘n’ pack staff in its warehouses and make sure they aren’t spending too much time on the loo....
...So the young Wenders got hooked on the rock ’n’ roll of the late 1950s and on American films, especially the grand panoramic Westerns of John Ford....
...“I hate dubbing — it was used by Franco as a form of censorship,” says Almodóvar, “but as a complementary language of cinema it interests me greatly....
...Any further destabilisation of the government would give even more impetus for the Flemish nationalist party, N-VA, which is already the largest in the country....
...terms of global and British vernaculars could be seen clearly in the steady stream of marked-up books that arrived on our desks: Trainspotting (1993), Irvine Welsh’s novel of Leith disaffection (radge n....
...That, at least, is the recommendation of Franco Moretti, a 63-year-old professor of English at Stanford University and unofficial leader of a band of academics bringing a science-fiction thrill to the science...
...It begins with a P and ends with an E and the middle letters are O, N, C.”...
...Bank of New York Mellon fell 4.7 per cent to $17.72, State Street lost 5.5 per cent to $30.40 and N orthern Trust Corporation retreated 2.8 per cent to $34.01....
...ZONE MONETARY SOURCE EURO SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO RESPOND DECISIVELY ON MARKETS TO CRISIS – EURO ZONE MONETARY SOURCE ECB CONFERENCE CALL CAREFULLY CONSIDERED SITUATION IN ITALY, SPAIN, TOOK NOTE OF FRANCO-GERMAN...
...by Francophone parties....
...POP Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock N Roll, by Marc Dolan, Norton, RRP£17.99, 592 pages A New York University professor’s academically rigorous rather than salaciously rock and roll account of...
...The above exceptions aside, almost every African musician of note is here, from Oum Kalsoum to Franco; Kutis father and son, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela; Youssou N’Dour and Baaba Maal; Mahmoud Ahmed...
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