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...In the late Roman republic, writes Winters in his 2011 book Oligarchy, oligarchs often hired discharged soldiers from the Roman army....
...but it’s directed by Roman Polanski....
...Over to my favourite rustic restaurant, El Llar de Viri in the village of San Román, for a big bowl of fabada asturiana, the long-simmered signature dish of beans and smoked sausage, and a bottle of local...
...Baseball player-turned-entrepreneur Alex Rodriguez. The FT’s US banking editor Joshua Franklin breaks down the saga on the FT’s Behind the Money podcast....
...“This guy is way too smart,” Rodriguez gushed. On Tuesday FTX took a stake in IEX, the upstart exchange that rocketed to fame in Michael Lewis’s 2014 book Flash Boys....
...He was previously the chief executive of Chelsea when the Premier League side was sold to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich....
.... $195 from shopthestandard.com The podcast I’m listening to is 99% Invisible by Roman Mars....
...While the population is thin, its history is rich, the salt and silver attracting the tough frontiersmen of passing eras, including Phoenicians, Romans and Moors....
...The most ambitious push to deal with this legacy was made under former Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose government passed a so-called historical memory law....
...The talks will start in Quito on October 27 and may be led by the former Colombian ambassador to the UK, Mauricio Rodríguez....
...“It is a scandal that the Church was allowed to act like the state,” says Mr Rodríguez....
...But Harim Rodríguez, the country’s deputy minister for information, tried to counter critics in July by arguing that “in Venezuela right now exists the greatest freedom of expression that has ever existed...
...Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...Shortly before his death Roman Emperor Septimius Severus advised his heirs: “Enrich the soldiers, and scorn all others.” Caracas has done just that....
...Francisco Rodríguez, chief Andean economist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, is not so bullish....
...Tobias Buck Madrid There is a strange little expression in Spanish that captures something of the carefree spirit of a sweltering Madrid summer: estar de Rodríguez, which literally means “to be Rodríguez...
...It faced bitter opposition from the centre-right Popular party, and from Spain’s Roman Catholic Church (which served as a pillar of the Franco regime)....
...The hotel interior was designed by Roman Alonso of Commune, a Los Angeles-based firm....
...Enjoy your room service, Rodriguez. simon.kuper@ft.com...
...Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 Higgins drives a blue camper van around Britain seeking out the ruins of Roman civilisation....
...His schoolteacher parents lacked enough money to care for him themselves, so he and his elder brother were raised by their grandmother Rosa, a devout Roman Catholic....
...In an interview with Roman newspaper Il Messaggero published on Monday, Fabrizio Viola, chief executive, reiterated that the bank would make “every effort” to return to profitability....
...war of the 1930s – and to the traditions of the Roman Catholic church....
...Mr Rubalcaba is a former interior minister and was the prime ministerial candidate in November’s elections after José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said he would not seek a third term....
...Juan Antonio Delgado, a Roman Catholic priest in Montijo, says Caritas, the church’s charitable arm, is helping some 300 people, about a quarter of them foreign immigrants, with food handouts....
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