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...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...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....
...We pedalled on through Chittenango, where L Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was born (yes there’s a museum with a yellow brick road outside), and Rome (where Clinton began building the...
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Walden Macht & HaranO: 6; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 21The firm represented Ronald Streck, a whistleblower against pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly, in a series of successful False Claims Act lawsuits....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...In an interview with the FT’s Laurence Fletcher, he described his bet against UK government bonds as “the gifts that keep on giving.”...
...Fletcher received none of it....
...L Catterton has appointed Shahab Rashid as managing partner and co-head of its new private credit business as the $33bn in assets private equity firm expands into debt investments....
...Three years ago Sir Ronald Cohen, the veteran European venture capitalist, established a so-called Impact-Weighted Accounts research project at HBS....
...Powell rose to public prominence as Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser — and later, as the four-star general who became chair of the joint chiefs of staff under George HW Bush....
...Last year, Joe Biden surpassed Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan to become the oldest sitting US president....
...Another approach Republicans could take is to go past the neoliberalism to liberalism (with a small L), to Adam Smith....
...“Prime brokerage looks a lot riskier today than two weeks ago,” Andrew Beer, managing member at the fund group Dynamic Beta Investments, told the FT’s Laurence Fletcher....
...Blackstone has appointed retired four-star General David L Goldfein, the 21st chief of staff of the United States Air Force, as a senior adviser....
...He said FundRock Holding was “expecting to have a challenge in terms of P&L” when it purchased the UK ACD in 2017....
...“There’s a whole world of people who enjoy clicking a mouse more than picking up a phone,” Fletcher says. Valls and his team were attracted by such results, Fletcher says....
...More here from the FT’s Laurence Fletcher....
...Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, by Ronald Cohen, Ebury Press, RRP£16.99, 256 pages Can capitalist businesses also have explicit social purpose?...
...We followed the route round the Reichstag and past the Brandenburg Gate where, in 1987, US President Ronald Reagan urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”....
...Matthew L Tompkins is an experimental psychologist and professional magician....
...Squeeze your eyes a little and they blur into a territory somewhere between L S Lowry and Sean Scully, patchworks of browns and greys shot through with the black of downpipes and gutters....
...economist’s “concept of countervailing power”, put forth in his 1952 book American Capitalism, is a critique of the “market knows best” view that has dominated the US political economy since the era of Ronald...
...The builders of the great medieval cathedrals managed quite happily without any such highfalutin drawing techniques, and it wasn’t until Auguste Choisy’s Histoire de l’architecture of 1899 that a drawing...
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