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...” scam was called the Oman Ghana Trust Fund, and it operated for 20 years (London Review of Books $) — After the flood (Tarence Ray for The Baffler $) — The threat from China’s capital flight (The Overshoot...
...He adds that the postwar rise of the Commonwealth — an organisation of the UK and British colonies, many either newly independent or campaigning for independence — was also responsible: “A lot of those architects...
...Man Ray chose Eugène Atget’s view of a crowd on the Place de la Bastille looking up at a solar eclipse in 1912 as the cover for La Révolution surréaliste in 1926....
...Some 382 investors bought a stake in Mage, the Kentucky Derby winner, through the Commonwealth sports investment app — thoroughbred ownership goes for as little as $50....
...X-rays revealed how Caravaggio altered the giant’s expression from one of terror and surprise as he meets his death to one of resignation. Every painting contains the ghosts of earlier intentions....
...Challenging then-UAW president Ray Curry was “risky,” inviting ostracism from colleagues or loss of a staff position, Houldieson said. “I felt that was very brave,” he said....
...Sophocles and Ovid considered these small nuggets the hardened tears of grieving maidens; others, the dried sweat of the rays of the sun, secretions of the sperm whale or even the solidified urine of lynx...
...shake-up of the world’s largest hedge fund since founder Ray Dalio ceded control of the firm....
...At the end, a huge photo-collage fantasia of their Tai Kwun centre in Hong Kong is set against an X-ray skyline with buildings appearing as structural cages being overwhelmed by speculative foliage....
...He was arrested in “reference to various financial offences against the laws of the United States, which are also offences against laws of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas”, the force added in a statement...
...What would the urbane Ray have made of the maximalist RRR?...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...She started the tradition of televised messages to the country in 1957, although her grandfather George V made the first royal Christmas broadcast on radio in 1932 — with a script by Rudyard Kipling....
...The monument replaced a statue of King George V, the Queen’s grandfather....
...Citizen Sleeper casts players as androids trying to escape the clutches of a tech company which owns their mind and body, while Kentucky Route Zero and Night in the Woods both offer intimate and elegiac...
...than 150 prime ministers of the other Commonwealth realms....
...I also own a lot of his work, including an enormous oversized teapot that’s about 18in tall. I think it’s the most beautiful teapot there is. The last music I downloaded was by X-Ray Spex....
...Royal figures in attendance will also include Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Harald V and Queen...
...Elizabeth was now Queen, not just of the United Kingdom but also of the Commonwealth, of Canada, Australia, Jamaica, and other former colonies....
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...This was also the Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and a clutch of other former colonies. It was Elizabeth personally who was the mainstay of the Commonwealth....
...Managers such as John Paulson, Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio became stars, and Li aspired to reach their ranks....
...We do not believe that this is going to be another steep correction followed by an equally swift V-shaped recovery like we saw at the outset of the pandemic....
...Bookmaker Flutter said it had agreed to pay $300m to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to settle a long-running legal dispute over online poker....
...The Democratic governor said the highly-transmissible Delta variant was propelling “the fastest surge that we’ve ever seen in Covid in the Commonwealth right now.”...
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