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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...The Bloomsbury critic Roger Fry never quite forgave him....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...New York Fashion Week has lost its star power. The same could be said for American fashion....
...Relying on private companies is no panacea. In search of innovation and lower costs, Nasa treats companies as partners rather than simple contractors....
...Limited options In the past, Turkey has often experienced V-shaped recessions, with sharp contractions swiftly followed by a strong return to growth....
...The company, founded by Roger Altman, reported investment banking revenues of more than $2bn last year....
...addiction The risk of boom turning to bust Brooke Masters: Debt v equity — why have IPOs fallen?...
...Three big US coal companies have already filed for bankruptcy protection this year: Patriot Coal, Alpha Natural Resources and Walter Energy....
...Over the past 30 years, successive pieces of legislation have given US investigators extensive powers with which to tap technology and telecoms companies for suspects’ data....
...Engines can make more power, more reliably, with help from engineering companies such as SRM and Unity Equipe in the UK....
...Simone Rauchfuss, Lange’s engraver, instructs me to shift the tool in my hand back and forth, making a sort of V-shape as I move the tool forward....
...“The focus is on putting the parts together, transferring the power of construction to the user.”...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...exploration drove Britain’s emergence as an imperial power....
...Public v private: The state starts to run out of time on how big it should be The big debate of 2012 will be over the role of government in the economy, writes Deanne Julius....
...The end of Part Two, in which Hal becomes Henry V and repudiates his old companion in crime, is more shattering than any denouement of Shakespeare’s tragedies....
...Andrew Ritchie, technical director, Brompton Bicycle company. Ruth Rogers, co-founder, River Café. Lemn Sissay, poet and performer. Claire Taylor, England cricketer....
...The talent show judge with the razor-sharp put downs, V-neck sweaters and high-waisted trousers capped weeks of wall-to-wall newspaper coverage of his ITV show The X Factor by taking on the UK Border Agency...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
...Originally constructed as a power station, the building was later acquired by the Liebig meat extract company, which made beef cubes from the meat that arrived at its riverside wharf....
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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