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...Over time, writes another Chinese stone expert, art historian Robert D Mowry, taste in rocks mirrored broader cultural shifts: an early interest in muted, monochrome rocks and understated, monochrome ceramics...
...Centerview has disputed his claims, responding that Handler was already paid hundreds of millions of dollars and that by leaving the firm, he had forfeited any interests he had....
...on critical minerals, semiconductors, microchips and so forth....
...Music and audio mix by Breen Turner. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. We’ll meet again here next week. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (Princeton) Turner lifts the lid on Chaucer’s most famous character, the first ordinary woman in English literature, who is explored against the reality of...
...Robert Heath Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro Real Gabinete Português de Leitura opened in its current neo-Manueline building in 1888....
...Ultra-low interest rates will put extra pressure on their profits....
...A sale could give shares in L Brands a much-needed lift....
...European democracies are not based on protecting the interests of the few....
...Private sector interest in REDD+ projects is spiking....
...These interleave with displays from his far-ranging collection: gleaming minerals, Audubon’s huge-beaked “American White Pelican”, Turner’s “Venetian Festival” dissolving into white-gold shimmers....
...The economic calendar for Wednesday is thin, like butter scraped over too much bread (all times Hong Kong): 09.30: Australia Q2 wage price index15.05: Bank of Thailand interest rates decision...
...E.L. James’s Fifty Shades erotic trilogy, for instance, shattered records, selling more than 100m copies worldwide....
...… Crime by Barry Forshaw The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Sphere, RRP£20 We mustn’t hold against Robert Galbraith the fact that he’s really mega-selling JK Rowling....
...Robert Grant made a solid career out of Botox and breast implants....
...eastern state of Orissa. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8d7e18ec-2833-11e2-afd2-00144feabdc0.html L’Oréal taps into Indonesian beauty market L’Oréal, the world’s biggest cosmetics group by sales, will...
...Earnings before interest and tax, which eased just 11 per cent, buffered a 32 per cent decline from mining and energy....
...,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement....
...The MLS is delighted at such interest....
...In the wider market, trading was fairly muted ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates later in the day....
...MF Global said there was a chance A&L would now be forced to cut its dividend. Traders also pointed out that A&L was the most expensive stock in the sector, trading at 1.9 times book value....
...Trian, which together with sovereign wealth fund Qatar Holding has a 4.5 per cent interest in Cadbury, called for more aggressive margin targets and the return of capital to shareholders....
...Mansion House Bay, The Governor Sauvignon Blanc 2007 Marlborough is another oaked Sauvignon Blanc whose maker seemed to me to have added interest without oiliness or heaviness....
...The weak Australian dollar helps exports, the banks are well regulated, and China is still close and resource hungry for Australian mineral exports....
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