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...the Fall Party at The Plaza (“that one is cocktail attire”, she says)....
...In the end I picked a wonderful place I have visited any number of times that is at the heart of a number of very pleasant circular walks: the Raven Hotel in Much Wenlock, Shropshire....
...Their Associate Brewer programme started out with three other brewers that they knew from the home-brewing club, including Adam Henderson and Matt Kohlen from Superflux....
...The best short walk in the area is arguably the Sherbrooke Falls trek — a mostly flat 2.4km loop around a small cascade that is pleasant but no Niagara....
...From here, you can head south to the seaside hamlets of Stanley and Shek O by descending the way you came, and then taking Wong Nai Chung Gap Road and going over the hill to the pleasant beachside area of...
...It may not have been my thing, but it had a pleasant vibe and the cocktails were good....
...Job moves Metro Bank co-founder Vernon Hill has stepped down as chairman with immediate effect, as the UK challenger bank’s woes deepen. More here....
...The dining room has taken on a pleasant low hum of conversation as the tables fill up....
...Pindi was more proximate to the army chief and Gakhar Plaza, but it would have to do....
...Minding the Store: A Big Story about a Small Business, by Julie Gaines, illustrated by Ben Lenovitz, lgonquin Books of Chapel Hill, RRP£16.99/$21.95...
...Rob Hill, of estate agents Greater London Properties, says that in 2008 a penthouse in Soho sold for a record £1,600 per sq ft....
...Ms Stribling should know: she sold the Plaza Hotel apartments in 2007, about half of which went to foreigners. “They see America as a safe haven,” she says....
...Situated roughly halfway between the White House and Capitol Hill, the building is now almost universally declaimed as the ugliest in the US capital....
...of the whole 19-building complex, which fills three blocks of midtown Manhattan between 48th and 51st streets, was in part altruistic, the creation of the nightclub on the 65th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza...
...Yann Debelle de Montby is chief executive and co-founder of Debelle de Montby Associates, a consultancy specialising in luxury and brand identity based in Shanghai...
...The Morgan Motor Company, located in the Malvern Hills near the English-Welsh border, has been hand-building cars since 1909....
...His successors will be more pleasant and they will take their marching orders from a computer. john.gapper@ft.com...
...“This type of residence has yet to hit Sydney, but it won’t be long before it does,” says Tony Leong, an associate at Savills Residential Australia....
...The academics, Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, Bradley Staats of Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Jooa Julia Lee of...
...“It’s the biggest penthouse in the Plaza Hotel, 7,000 sq ft. It’s incredible. Three storeys, it’s a triplex....
...Selections by Simon Kuper … Lucy Kellaway FT columnist and associate editor In 1982 Nina Stibbe moved from Leicester to Camden Town to look after the children of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London...
...The surrounding district – Colombia’s most densely populated – is now a pleasant place to stroll. On the other side of the evacuated dump, panels made by city artists ringfence the toxic hill....
...Kirk Henckels of Striblings and Associates, who deals only in sales of Manhattan properties priced $5m-plus, says: “The high end just shot through the roof....
...But with expectations so low, a stay here can only be a pleasant surprise....
...Go for a stroll in Le Panier, a network of narrow streets on the hill behind the Vieux Port....
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