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...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao (Yale) How China’s economic success continues to be shaped by Mao’s communist ideology, which has positioned...
...But they’re cultivated in surroundings that have little to do with twee rolling hills and faux-chateau outbuildings: severe, dry and remote, the landscapes are more Y Tu Mamá También (or A Fistful of Dollars...
...Miriam l Betz Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo, Santander This library holds 41,500 titles from the collection of the 19th-century Spanish intellectual Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who “donated the collection...
...I’m not particularly tech-y but anything that provides music or information is essential....
...The crowd at the Locarno tends to be less stuffy than at the Hotel De Russie, and less business-y....
...Here’s Canaccord: Total revenue was $564.2m, as reported in the pre-close update (7 July), +281% y/y. Of this, client losses contributed 1%....
...Emmerson Mnangagwa “The crocodile” took over as president of Zimbabwe, easing Robert Mugabe from power after 37 years....
...At the Met, Robert Lepage’s production, already seen at the Festival d’Opéra de Québec, will reflect the music’s iridescent beauty....
...Its wines are wonderfully intense, honest and earthy and I was paying about £6 a bottle for them in France until Robert Parker started giving them top ratings....
...Arjan Dijk , vice-president of marketing, Google 23 Cindy Armine-Klein , executive vice-president and chief control officer, First Data Corporation 24 Gerry Stone , managing director, Bank of America 25 Robert...
...Invited by film critic Elvis Mitchell, Tarantino put together an impressive cast including Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Goggins and Madsen....
...Vast, sprawling galleries devoted to “Demoiselles from elsewhere” — feminist and anti-racist renderings such as Robert Colescott’s “Les Demoiselles d’Alabama” or Faith Ringgold’s “Picasso’s Studio” — and...
...‘Good 70s’, by Mike Mandel, is published by DAP/J&L Books ($125); artbook.com/jandlbooks.org....
...His account of the convulsions in the decade up to Mao’s death in 1976 is fluent, compelling and based on a wide range of evidence....
...But it has been little noted that the political signal is a mix of Mao and markets....
...Robert Rice and William Johnson did not respond to requests for their comments on this meeting. (Robert Rice no longer works for Deutsche Bank and is now general counsel to the SEC chairman.)...
...The main split in HS2, the so-called Y, is likely to be near Lichfield and this has led to a tussle on the eastern line to Leeds....
...A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke, by Ronald Reng, Yellow Jersey, RRP£16.99 The German goalkeeper Robert Enke represented his country and was good enough to be signed by Barcelona....
...Ghost Rider runs out of oomph very swiftly, helped to a standstill by a cast (Cage, Fonda, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott) encouraged to talk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, like 78rpm records when someone has forgotten...
...Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization By Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia L....
...The coming weeks see two important Warhol shows at New York galleries, the “Mao” portraits at L M and the “Skull” and “Hammer Sickle” series at Perry Rubenstein....
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
...This idea seems to echo a core proposition of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by science writer Robert Wright....
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