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...The bank’s sports team have no time to rest on their laurels, however....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Appropriately enough, you pass the Royal Danish Academy for architecture and will see the modern Opera looming on your right....
...The nail drier in the dressing-table drawer, for instance....
...The host’s title, president of the Russian Academy of Arts, seemed to make him a natural acquaintance for a collector such as Black. But it was misleading....
...Her skills have developed with help from a local coach, chess videos, the ECF Academy, online tournaments, and her ambitious approach to competition....
...Staff at the bank will miss a certain line item on someone’s bank statement or a certain form of income . . ....
...Their fortunes are not being flattered by central bank liquidity....
...You can get your hair done but not your nails until Monday....
...Government borrowing costs are now at record lows, thanks to the European Central Bank intervening in sovereign debt markets. German conservatives have gone quiet about that....
...Earlier optimistic hopes of a sharp V-shaped British recovery seem to be fading as new coronavirus spikes appear....
...Letter in response to this article: Oil price crunch could be bad news for Russia / From Andrei V Belyi, University of Eastern Finland...
...Metro Bank goes onto the “buy” list at Investec. Analyst Ian Gordon reckons it’s now cheap enough to offset the fact that it’s Metro Bank....
...‘Tensions in the special relationship’ This week’s Huawei story is a nail-biter....
...(FT, NYT) Oscar announcement Nominees for the 2020 Academy Awards will be announced this afternoon from Los Angeles....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...As the Myriad case showed, “this isn’t a well understood area — it’s not like earnings announcements or central banks setting rates,” he says....
...Painted in a soft-focus pointillist style, her paintings can be hard to date — until you notice, say, a lovingly rendered mobile phone or set of acrylic nails....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...The Royal Opera House puts on free recitals (though you’ll need to reserve a ticket online) as does the Royal Academy of Music....
...(FT) Trump v the global community Martin Wolf on Donald Trump’s America First world view and how human affairs are too interconnected to be the product of purely national decision-making....
...This growth rate is the lowest since the global financial crisis and recession of 2009 and only on a par with growth in 2008, the year the US investment bank Lehman Brothers failed....
...According to Chen Wuqing, a specialist in gender studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, men like Li are “just the tip of the wave”....
...It would influence many of Soane’s future buildings, most notably the “Tivoli” corner of the Bank of England, part of his extensive work for the bank, much of which was destroyed in the 1920s....
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