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...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Walden Macht & HaranO: 6; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 21The firm represented Ronald Streck, a whistleblower against pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly, in a series of successful False Claims Act lawsuits....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...Vargas Llosa’s latest novel opens in a New York PR agency, where we meet Edward L Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the world’s first PR mogul....
...Three years ago Sir Ronald Cohen, the veteran European venture capitalist, established a so-called Impact-Weighted Accounts research project at HBS....
...as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”....
...Powell rose to public prominence as Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser — and later, as the four-star general who became chair of the joint chiefs of staff under George HW Bush....
...Second Place, by Rachel Cusk, Faber, RRP£14.99, 224 pages/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$12.99, 192 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Last year, Joe Biden surpassed Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan to become the oldest sitting US president....
...After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes, Bloomsbury £20, 384 pages Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux $27/Johnathan Cape...
...Another approach Republicans could take is to go past the neoliberalism to liberalism (with a small L), to Adam Smith....
...In Reset (House of Anansi, January) Ronald Deibert sketches out a plan to reclaim the internet for civil society, while Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank make the case for public internet technology...
...Sylvie Baumgartel’s debut, ‘Song of Songs’, is published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
...Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, by Ronald Cohen, Ebury Press, RRP£16.99, 256 pages Can capitalist businesses also have explicit social purpose?...
...Ingestion of a different kind features in The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L Davis (John Murray RRP£14.99, April; already available in the US), which relates an episode in...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...economist’s “concept of countervailing power”, put forth in his 1952 book American Capitalism, is a critique of the “market knows best” view that has dominated the US political economy since the era of Ronald...
...The builders of the great medieval cathedrals managed quite happily without any such highfalutin drawing techniques, and it wasn’t until Auguste Choisy’s Histoire de l’architecture of 1899 that a drawing...
...Both parties should heed president Ronald Reagan’s advice: “Don’t just do something, stand there”....
...“A modern Saturn, that is to say a Saturn who has become a captain of industry, continues to devour his own sons,” wrote L’Osservatore Romano after Musso’s death....
...The two Americans worked with Ronald Drever, a Scottish physicist who built his first prototypes at Glasgow University and then moved to Caltech....
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