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...Soete and his brother dissolved the rest of the body parts in vats of sulphuric acid that belonged to the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the company established by King Léopold II in 1906 to exploit the...
...When I got there, Nikolai Georgievich Sokolov was designated by the Peace Corps as my “counterpart”....
...The male costuming is beyond reproach, but the pastel puffballs worn by the Act II tarts are a hideous distraction — as if costumed by Ladurée....
...At the same time, December is on course to be the first month without a US junk corporate bond sale since the immediate aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers....
...Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, was made up of gifted jazz-trained musicians....
...The paradigm shifted in the 1970s, when The Godfather: Part II became the first sequel to win best picture at the Academy Awards....
...and, sometimes, to almost all conceivable measures of their net present value because they allow for gains elsewhere (eg, reductions in tax liabilities or the elimination of downward pricing pressure); (ii...
...As a teenager, my mother’s brother took a bet that he couldn’t pedal down the pier and soar over the entrance to the other side....
...The Royal Hospital was founded by Charles II in 1682 “for the succour and relief of veterans broken by age and war”, expanded under James II and completed under William and Mary in 1692....
...Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, in which Kingdom owns 7 per cent of voting shares, holds about 20 per cent of the prince’s Rotana media group....
...Jaime Botín, the chairman’s brother, part-owns and heads another of Spain’s big lenders, Bankinter....
...Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley all disappeared in quick succession....
...This year, MMC hosted a number of RTL productions, including the live shows “Germany’s Got Talent, as well as “Big Brother” for Munich-based RTL II....
...Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox are working on a new premium video-on-demand scheme with DirecTV, the satellite operator, which would see films made available in the home between 30 and 60 days after...
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
...First Andy Briggs, who ran the general insurance business, signed up to replace Trevor Matthews at Friends Life, the UK consolidation project of Clive Cowdery’s Resolution mark II....
...In Fable III, I played the princess, free to do as I wished, until the time came for me to rebel against the reign of my brother. The only other role is to play the brother of King Logan....
...His son, Sam II, was kidnapped in 1975 for a huge ransom....
...The original Candy scheme is seen as unworkable in the current market climate, while the Grade II-listed gothic chapel in the centre of the site continues to complicate the development....
...Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp is to close its oil derivatives business by March 2012. The unit made heavy losses on jet fuel hedges related to the collapse of JAL, the Japanese airline....
...Mr Nivison says: “Basel II remains a major concern in the trade finance world . . ....
...The Monaco-based brothers are busy on a number of schemes overseas, including the completion of their new yacht, Candyscape II....
...As for the upcoming change in global banking rules, including new capital adequacy requirements under the Basel II regime, Australian banks should not be in the least fazed....
...The Basel framework’s core regulatory capital requirement – that banks hold a minimum of 8 per cent Tier I plus Tier II capital relative to risk-weighted assets – has been in place for more than 20 years...
...trustees in the two days after Lehman Brothers sought bankruptcy protection on September 15....
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