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...Dozens of breeds must undergo body modifications to meet the American Kennel Club’s ideal. The Doberman, for instance, has floppy ears but the AKC prefers them erect....
...also features her first collaborations with Grammy-winning producer Stuart Price, who has worked with Madonna, Kylie and Pet Shop Boys....
...For Sale: The Phoenix Suns and Mercury — and the NBA’s dignity The National Basketball Association‘s Phoenix Suns and the WNBA‘s Phoenix Mercury are for sale, but the transactions may carry as much reputational...
...Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” is playing, when the volume is suddenly turned up several notches. Applause breaks out on the patio, and then there are cheers of “We love you!”...
...“I’d gone to this wine and R’n’B event in Brixton called Genuwine, where Dan was DJing. And when he saw me, he was like, ‘You’re Dynamite! What are you doing here?’...
...It was at a dinner hosted by the shirting brand Turnbull & Asser at Mark’s Club in London earlier this year that I was first struck by the number of men, around 95 per cent of those assembled, who had decorated...
...Jalen N’Gonda sings with the caressing falsetto of a Smokey Robinson or Al Green and has the relaxed sense of time to match....
...Flex-N-Gate weathered the 2008 financial crisis better than most of its rivals, leaving it in a good position when the industry recovered....
...Aside from the excellent headline figures, CVS added another 53,000 animals to its Healthy Pet Club scheme, taking the total number of members to 306,000....
...Shortly afterwards, his firm dropped plans to buy BHF Kleinwort Benson, the UK merchant bank, and in February cancelled plans to buy Phoenix, the Israeli insurer....
...In February Fosun dropped plans to buy Israeli insurance company Phoenix Holdings for Shk1.8bn ($462m)....
...Profitable sales made included Grafton at 780p and Phoenix Group at 843p. As reported previously, I ditched convenience store group McColl’s at around 170p — they look very weak at 160p....
...It will fan speculation that Prosper is preparing to follow the industry’s biggest player, Lending Club, in listing its shares in New York....
...The 42 gyms of Gym Group are majority owned by Phoenix Equity Partners which last year bought its stake from Bridges Ventures, which founded the business....
...A survey by the website Guitarrockstar.co.uk in 2008 even dubbed W12 the top rock n’roll area in the UK, with one “star” for every 1,222 inhabitants....
...He began work at Flex-N-Gate in 1970 and returned to buy the company 10 years later. It employs 16,000 people....
...His 2008 book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, received P.E.N. America’s John Kenneth Galbraith prize....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...Because F comes before N. Nobody ever says ‘Nixon/Frost’, do they?” Cue cigar-chomp and chuckle. What a man, what a life....
...Previously Chairman Levitt served on the boards of TIAA-CREF, Neuberger Berman, LLC, and Risk Metrics Group....
...The Polish pay-TV market is highly competitive, with about half of revenues going to Polsat, 26 per cent to Vivendi’s Cyfra+, and 18 per cent to “N”....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...The American design duo Proenza Schouler ask me to host a party at the old Pyramid club. Cynthia Rowley’s show I’ve missed already. Thom Browne is on the line and I’m on a deadline....
...We are deep in a 1980s renaissance, from décor (Philippe Starck) to music (The Pet Shop Boys and Grace Jones) and, of course, fashion....
...Ben Thompson is the author of ‘Ways of Hearing’ (Phoenix)...
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