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...Among the clients were family members of one-time Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Kazakhstan and Ronald Li Fook, the former chair of the Hong Kong stock exchange who was imprisoned...
...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....
...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...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....
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...Headliners include Summer Walker, Maxwell and Davido....
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...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....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple whose family picked cotton in Georgia, once said her mother was “an artist whose palette was a flower garden”....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...DeSantis is expected to hit the road again, skipping the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland and instead making stops in Texas and California, including giving a sold-out talk at Ronald...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
...Among the named Credit Suisse clients were Ronald Li Fook, the former chair of the Hong Kong stock exchange who opened an account at the bank a decade after being imprisoned for taking bribes....
...Enel seeks to slash debt with €21bn asset sale (FT) Exonerated trader sues Deutsche Bank over Libor rigging allegations (FT) Tiger Global’s now-worthless FTX bet had Bain’s due diligence (Bloomberg) L&...
...Ross Walker: Yes. Enough to cut rates....
...For walkers like me, it is irresistible. Hardly anyone I know has ever visited....
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