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...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...A new exhibition — Plastic: Remaking Our World — at the V&A Dundee explores how we have come simultaneously to depend on and disparage plastic, and looks at how we might learn to throw less of it away....
...“Josef Albers considered yellow to be the colour of healing,” explains the foundation’s director Nicholas Fox Weber....
...At a hastily assembled parlay, the three explorers agreed to sail immediately for Spain that their king, Charles V, might determine who among them was the official discoverer of a place, roughly the size...
...Rasmussen’s gambit is typically clever electioneering from the veteran Liberal politician....
...Die Welt, a Berlin newspaper, on Tuesday published an opinion piece by Henryk Broder (here behind a paywall) that attacked Manfred Weber, a leading conservative German politician, for saying: “We will not...
...Names mentioned for Mr Tusk’s role include prime ministers Charles Michel of Belgium, Lars Lokke Rasmussen of Denmark and António Costa of Portugal....
...continuing to cause significant pressures on markets . . . in short time, policymakers may need to move to new realms of response — including targeted supervisory and regulatory policy measures,” said Axel Weber...
...They include Charles Michel of Belgium, Denmark’s Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg....
...Mr Weber said EPP support would hinge on two key criteria....
...(Project Syndicate) AKK v AfD The head of Ms Merkel’s CDU party has hit out at a “climate of hate” orchestrated by the anti-Islam AfD party, saying polarised politics was responsible for the murder of a...
...Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s prime minister, faces an election next week, while Dalia Grybauskaite will step down as Lithuania’s president in July after reaching constitutional term limits....
...Mr Rasmussen, who was probably attending his final summit representing Denmark, was more relaxed....
...On the other hand, she has little choice but to support Weber....
...Peak populism v the Green wave The far-right earthquake didn't quite shake the parliament's foundations....
...Possible contenders include sitting premiers such as Charles Michel of Belgium and Denmark’s Lars-Lokke Rasmussen, who are both liberals; Andrej Plenkovic, the centre-right prime minister of Croatia; and...
...“They need to get their act together,” warned Denmark’s prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen....
...Mr Kurz and his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen last month proposed a variation on this theme of outsourcing migration....
...Der Spiegel’s Peter Müller reports that Manfred Weber, leader of the EU’s largest parliamentary party, is quietly positioning himself as Jean-Claude Juncker’s successor....
...She also treated her own body like a canvas, swathing some areas in grey and leaving the great white V of a neck exposed....
...Photograph: V&A...
...(Even French peasants, as another historian, Eugen Weber, reminds us, began thinking of themselves as French only rather recently.)...
...Mr Black says the “so-called dynasty issue just cancels out” if the race ends up being Bush v Clinton....
...Their initial work at Farnborough from 1947 – regarded by peers as their most influential – was on the Handley Page Victor V-bomber....
...Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Bruce Weber have all reimagined Horst’s pictures and acknowledged his influence....
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