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...Onboard, True North II’s purpose becomes obvious....
...II” (1930) sold for $48mn ($51mn with fees, estimate $50mn). Mondrian’s previous auction high was a fee-inclusive $50.6mn....
...As a soldier in the Royal Engineers, Laidley Nelson met Elizabeth II three times. The second time she recognised him. “She said, ‘Aren’t you that corporal?’ Her memory was fantastic....
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...There are four main options: i) May’s deal, ii) another deal (eg. Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...Ricardo Reis, Phillips professor of economics, London School of Economics Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...Even when the heartthrob heroes fashioned from history or literature ran out – Lord Jim, King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter – he still had his acting chops....
...chortled the designer as he showed off his “Little Dorrit” buckled stilettos (“crossed with Phillip II of Spain”), his pink satin booties hand-encrusted with jewels, and his favourite shoes, a pair of tasselled...
...Estimates for extending a 43-year lease on a two-bedroom apartment, recently sold in Kensington, ranged from £300,000 to £750,000, says Andrew Phillips, central London sales director at Hamptons International...
...Phillip Shaw, Investec Yes....
...Phillip Shaw, Investec The fact that all governments eventually deviate from their borrowing plans has been a defining feature of British fiscal policy over the decades....
...The Hangover Part II is what the label says: another day in which you sit there with blurred vision and a headache wondering how you came to be in the same room as several dozen other people debauched by...
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Phillip King’s iconic 1962 “Rosebud” is a pink plastic cone, its outer layer penetrated by a sinuous vertical slit revealing a dark green core, suggestive of the fold of petals....
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