Hints and tips:
...Al Thani over ownership of – and then complex exit payouts from – the Maybourne group of hotels (including Claridge’s and The Berkeley)....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Enter Zapote, where Mexican classics such as lamb barbacoa tacos and secreto al pastor skewers get the small-plate treatment, backdropped by Shoreditch’s industrial chic....
...There’s also a Chilean called Richard Riquelme Vega, he’s nicknamed El Rico, or the rich guy....
..., Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Jean-Michel Wilmotte....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...I’d heard of a house where Speke, Stanley, Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton all stayed; I’d been transfixed by tales of latticed balconies and Ali Baba jars in the African heart of the Omani Empire....
..., Emin et al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...Your favourite restaurant may have baulked at the idea of a larger group but may well cater for 15.”...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...” — the area around Avenue Montaigne, Avenue George V and part of the Champs-Élysées....
...We're going to have a look at stats from the same period. And this is abortions per 1,000 women. So not quite the same rate. But we're interested in the trend. Two, four, et cetera....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...Booths on each side of the room allow for privacy or table hopping as required, while a rear-wall bar facilitates quick conversations away from the group....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...Hermès is by far my favourite shop, and I have slowly collected men’s V-neck cashmere sweaters from there....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...She raised the idea of a mini street library to house them on a local community group’s Facebook page, then enlisted the help of a carpenter friend to build it....
...He was shocked to find the social network had amassed 1,200 pages — everything he’d ever “Liked” and every private message he’d ever sent....
...To read the news outside Russia, you’d think that any political jokes would fall flat in Moscow and that theatre listings must be full of one-man shows extolling the greatness of one V Putin....
...Its celebrated alumni — Shackleton and Captain Scott, Wilfred Thesiger, Ranulph Fiennes et al — were typically former public-school boys and army officers, deeply rooted in the establishment and celebrated...
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...al Jazeera’s BeIn Sports....
...Delegates were told over the tannoy that they’d be creating some kind of giant image or message during the nominee’s speech using coloured cards placed on their seats....
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