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...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...If, as Ridley Scott’s historical epic shows, Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais were once the world’s unassailable power couple, then the beguiling and ruinously extravagant Empress Joséphine...
...“Everything is seen on the same level, but what’s important is the curation of things that are an accurate mirror of regional style and soft-power signifiers....
...Naturally, we are told by the likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft et al that using AI to help solve the planet’s warming crisis is a wonderful idea....
...A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers (Sceptre/Little, Brown) Powers, an award-winning American novelist who first came to notice with The Yellow Birds, served in the US army in Iraq....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...The decision could give impetus to those who want to give more power over the sector to another regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees derivatives....
...“It was the first time I saw the power of that simple concept to get people out,” she says. Bake sales are, of course, nothing new....
...Bored of words, Ma et al. then tried numbers — roughly recreating the ratio of earnings revisions deployed above, but utilising forecasts of “earnings and other metrics” instead of just rating labels: We...
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
...Another, similar question: What does this mean for Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, et al? Handily this has the same answer: it’s not good either!...
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa’ is in the Arsenale until November 26...
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Marc FilippinoMichael Scott is the FT’s Latin America editor. Thank you, Michael. Michael StottThanks, Marc....
...When Tennant and Beaton et al were having their elaborate costume parties, elegance as much as decadence was everything....
...The affair has shone a spotlight on to a secretive banking dynasty, with court documents painting a struggle for power and riches redolent of the TV series Succession....
...(New Yorker) — Erik Brynjolfsson et al paper on using generative AI in customer support (NBER)...
...Exxon’s Pioneer deal: Scott Sheffield built Pioneer into the biggest oil producer in Texas and sold it for $60bn. The Permian oil man speaks to the FT....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Saudi Arabia is far from hanging up its jersey Yasir al-Rumayyan has had a busy few seasons....
...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...Transfer Market The New York Mets hired former Bloomberg Media chief Scott Havens to be president of business operations, reporting to owner Steve Cohen....
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
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