Hints and tips:
...I arrive at the restaurant 15 minutes ahead of schedule to find my lunch companion, Michel Roux Jr (chef, author, TV star and head of arguably Britain’s most important culinary family) already here....
...Fortunato Villanueva Jr is preparing to harvest unhusked rice this month from land he has worked for more than 30 years....
...To bankroll the project, he sold paintings by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and other artist friends he’d helped through their leaner years....
...Collins Seitz Jr, the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, tried to play statesman, noting the state is “not trying to win popularity contests” and that “Delaware has always persevered”....
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...Finca Cortesin’s cast of professionals include the high-society decorator Lorenzo Castillo, landscape designer Gerald Huggan, and René Zimmer, Finca Cortesin’s much-admired GM, whose input as managing director...
...Interiors have been transformed by the Spanish designer Lorenzo Castillo....
...And while other local institutions include Asco and Gamboa Jr in their collections, Lacma itself does not....
...It’s law’ Gillian Tett has lunch with Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, in the DA’s downtown skyscraper....
...Since taking over Swatch from his father in 2003, Nick Hayek Jr had viewed the situation as increasingly problematic, says Mr Chauvet....
...Some, including René Portocarrero and Raúl Martínez González, were artists with well-established careers. At its peak, the organisation employed around 20 illustrators, mostly men....
...Jaeger engaged designer René-Alfred Chauvot to render the idea practical, and he duly designed a rectilinear watch in perfect harmony with the streamlined, hard-edged art deco aesthetic....
...Atlanta was the city where Martin Luther King Jr spent his early years....
...A trio of vice-chairmen — Richard Gold, René Jones and Kevin Pearson — remains in charge of day-to-day operations, the bank said....
...Three of Henry’s six children remain on the board: Henry Jr. and Teresita as vice chairpersons and Harley, the former president, as executive director....
...Jake Gyllenhaal used to be the star you least noticed on a movie screen, blandly handsome, scant of mannerisms, eclipsed by any passing co-performer: Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, Robert Downey Jr...
...will come out to be one of the largest logistic and relief operation that the Philippine government has ever done in history and the president wanted to make sure that we have aligned everything,” Jose Rene...
...By the time the young Frenchman René Caillié arrived there, disguised as an Arab, the centuries-old reports of riches and splendour that had lured so many explorers had disappeared into myth....
...Mr Fourtou and Edgar Bronfman Jr, the former Warner Music chairman and chief executive, discussed Universal in Paris just over a month ago, people briefed on the meeting said....
...Jean-Rene Fourtou, the group’s chairman, has come in over Universal executives’ heads to handle negotiations in Brussels. And the asset-stripping of EMI looks imminent....
...Dominio do Bibei is the thoroughly modern, but stainless steel-free, project of owner Javier Dominguez, originally from the region, with input from Sara Perez and René Barbier Jr in the Mediterranean-influenced...
...The capital-raising exercise could broaden the ownership base of San Miguel’s common shares, 86 per cent of which are now controlled by just three shareholders, including Eduardo Cojuangco Jr, the company...
...Analysts said the moves, which could result in San Miguel coming under the ownership of a handful of shareholders, would help solidify control of the group by the incumbent management led by Eduardo Cojuangco Jr...
...Damian Fraser, foundation chairman and a banker with UBS, chaired the meeting in El Castillo, a hotel that was once James’s house in Xilitla....
...Holliday Jr., Chairman and CEO, DuPont, USA Kunio Ishihara, Member of the Board, President, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co....
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