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...Silverstein Properties, best known for its redevelopment of the World Trade Center, has agreed to sell a 20-story office building on Fifth Avenue near Bryant Park for $105 million, or $66 million less than...
...Aaron David Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said backing for Israel was “imprinted in [Biden’s] emotional DNA” after a half-century of public service in Washington....
...Its slightly setback crown mediates between the modest, pared-back Milanese language and a touch of New York — it was built at the same time as the Rockefeller Center was being designed....
...Now, more than half a century later, French bank Société Générale is trying to cash in on the US asset manager’s renown....
...In 2022, at least 13,910 out of 14,124 cinemas across the country were temporarily shut due to Covid, according to Beijing-based consultancy Top Century. Some never reopened....
...Beatrice Hodgkin will chair a session on psychedelics at the FTWeekend Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on 20 May....
...over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent Nagano conducting Wagner and Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln Center...
...Massimo De Carlo scored hits through its mixed booth, including with the Chinese artists Yan Pei-Ming (“Tête de tigre II”, 2022, €250,000) and Zhao Zhao (“Spread”, 2021, $30,000)....
...This year will be remembered as the end of an era in Britain, due to the passing of Elizabeth II....
...Jamalul Kiram II died in 1936 without leaving a direct heir, but since then a procession of Filipino citizens have made claims to the throne that for centuries ruled a region spanning modern day Malaysia...
...Less than half a century after it was started as a boutique investment vehicle run by two wealthy cousins, KKR has become a corporate behemoth....
...I learnt moves for “national dance day” with a local dance troupe at a studio in Columbia Heights and then stomped it out in a group performance at the Kennedy Center....
...That’s been a boon to SoftBank’s Vision Fund and Vision Fund II, where mark-to-market performances have improved rapidly since the market meltdown in March....
...These included Yinka Shonibare’s fibreglass mannequin “Skipping Girl II” (2019) for about £125,000 (Stephen Friedman), Kehinde Wiley’s “Portrait of Tahiatua Maraetefau II” (2019) for $240,000 (Galerie Templon...
...“The [World Trade Organization] was great [in the] past century, but the WTO was helping big companies to sell things across the nations....
...Rather than the 40,000 people that normally fill the cavernous CHI Health Center for the occasion, he faced nothing but a bunch of video cameras....
...Beats are what one might choose to channel the swagger of LeBron James, flanked by cameras, stepping through the Staples Center en route to the Los Angeles Lakers’ locker room....
...Tones II proceeds to quote a panoply of Balanchine gestures from the mid-century marvels that Mitchell danced. Wholly derivative, the ballet has one valuable thing to say: “We can do this.”...
...The 44-year-old ensemble has survived the demise of a century of Russian-ballet mania because it is not above slapstick or below lovingly reprising a 19th-century treasure typically only salvaged for parts...
...Ours, Suite II, was a blissfully quiet one-bedroom unit, overlooking an untidy garden at the back, and so beautifully decorated it was almost tempting to stay put....
...It has everything from 17th-century to 1980s pieces in various states of repair. Déballage basically means unpacking....
...Africans, understandably, object to the idea of a “scramble”, with its connotations of the 19th century, when European powers squabbled for a slice of what Leopold II of Belgium called this “magnifique gâteau...
...“The Paston Treasure” is thought to have been commissioned by Sir William Paston (a descendant of the authors of the Paston Letters, the 15th-century family correspondence first published in 1787), or by...
...Once you have residents staying here, the next challenge is to get the ecosystem around it such as shopping centers.”...
...Mr Bloomberg and Mr Doctoroff took office only weeks after the terrorist attack against the World Trade Center in 2001....
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