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...Nicholas Georgiadis’s rags-and-riches designs have worn extraordinarily well, illustrating the vast gulf between high and low life in pre-revolutionary France....
...White Fox by Owen Matthews (Bantam/Doubleday) The last in Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vasin sees him exiled to Siberia, to run a remote and brutal outpost of...
...“You need strong salespeople who understand the products and to do a lot of education,” said Alexander Blostein, an analyst at Goldman Sachs....
...The combination of political repression and economic expansion also characterised the reigns of tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Russia industrialised at...
...I suspect a similar fate lies in wait for the UN . . . ” — Nicholas Chia...
.../ From Alexander Cowdell, Auckland, New Zealand Affordable opera for the shires — an outlandish idea!...
...An exception was made for Xi Jinping and Alexander Lukashenko but generally it was made customary for visitors to take chairs at the opposite end of a very long table....
...Armour was also one of Lee Alexander McQueen’s longest-lasting obsessions, and he worked with the jeweller Shaun Leane to create pieces that tested the limits of jewellery and fashion....
...At a booth for Danish group Arla Foods Ingredients, Shanghai-based Asia head Alexander Leufgen said some customers from within China and abroad had struggled to get into the event because of the pandemic...
...Georgacopoulos points to Alexander McQueen and Simone Rocha as early instigators....
...Nicholas Lemann’s piece in the Washington Monthly is spot on about the shifts in the American political economy....
...“The price spike would be unpredictable — over $300 a barrel, if not more,” said deputy prime minister Alexander Novak. Stocks dropped sharply....
...They were, in the words of Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, “the tsar and the emperor”....
...“Family of Darius Before Alexander” (1565-67)....
...“Legitimate business people do not bring cash in sports bags, hidden in the panels of vehicles,” Nicholas Clarke QC, prosecuting, said....
...Prosecutor Nicholas Clarke QC claimed to the court that it was “blindingly obvious” that the cash being couriered to Fowler & Oldfield by people using plastic carrier bags, sports bags and holdalls came...
...The film’s director was wearing two-tone loafers, Ben Whishaw reprised his familiar Alexander McQueen embellished tux and no tie look, but all were eclipsed by the fuchsia glow of Daniel Craig’s double-breasted...
...branded him a dangerous subversive in the eyes of the tsarist authorities, who later exiled him to Yakutsk in the remotest corner of Siberia for alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander...
...On Thursday prosecutor Nicholas Clarke QC claimed that through marriage to Petra Ecclestone, Stunt “enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle, although his own personal finances are shrouded in mystery”....
...“We are risking a massive deindustrialisation of the European continent,” says Alexander De Croo, Belgium’s prime minister....
...But the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has been trying to make its presence felt in Glasgow through prominent Britons Danny Alexander and Nicholas Stern, both now working with the institution...
...The general, Alexander Ivanov, went on to supply surveillance technology used by Russian intelligence....
...Nutmeg executives, led by chief executive Neil Alexander, are to remain in place after the acquisition. Arma Partners acted as advisor to Nutmeg on the deal...
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