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...Washington has appointed a new ambassador, and US assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs Brian Nichols recently visited Bukele....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell will on Thursday update Congress on monetary policy, while across the Atlantic European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde will reveal the latest interest rate decision...
...Additional reporting by Christine Murray in Mexico City...
...Brian Nichols, the US assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs, made a last-minute trip to Honduras just before the elections and met Castro — an encounter analysts say was partly used to discourage...
...Rita Konig, interior designer”Ubomi Abumang” by Sun-El Musician. He’s a South African artist and makes the sort of music you can get lost in....
...Julie Halston also impresses as the show’s tough-as-nails producer Rita Marshall, who is the first to spot Dorothy’s full potential....
...Eerily Puligny-like. 13% £35.35, Miles Better Wines; £46.60, Hedonism; £49, Harvey Nichols ——————————————- Last week: Christmas red wines Sparkling wine picks will follow in the December 20 edition of...
...Stacey Cartwright, the highly regarded former finance director of Burberry, has been named chief executive of luxury department store chain Harvey Nichols....
...Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has warned that “a fierce industry pushback” by the financial sector is delaying much-needed reforms and risks destabilising the...
...And, beyond that, the films of Neil LaBute and Mike Nichols, whose Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
...Rita Dhut, a former fund manager who now works as a serial non-executive, says: “The real bugger is that men earn more than women for the same role.”...
...“No one would dream of saying ‘because Burberry has opened another flagship store, Harrods or Selfridges or Harvey Nichols [will] lose sales’. No one would make that assumption....
...A Hungarian delegation met Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, in Washington....
...They are all patently evocative of pin-up glamour from the past: Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and – not coincidentally – Bettie Page, the inspiration for Christian Dior’s spring/summer collection....
...When he retires next year I think he will have “Christine Lagarde shared my cheese” as his epigraph....
...In London, Marc Jacobs’ scent, Bang (£40), was Harvey Nichols’ most successful men’s fragrance launch to date....
...“Companies are working harder than ever to make sensory and romantic experiences for customers,” says Rita Clifton, director at the brand consultancy Interbrand....
...And where, for that matter, are the Janes, the Julias, the Susans, the Margarets, the Christines, the Jeans and the Marys? Of course, names have always been fashion-led....
...Today we desperately need a Goldwater Nichols Act for the entire federal government. Desperately....
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