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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....
...and L-histidine....
...When I sit there, I feel like I am in a Woody Allen movie....
...Whose film roles include playing L P Hartley’s Marian Maudsley, Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene and Boris Pasternak’s Lara Antipova?...
...Just 100ml of the woody, fruity Aventus fragrance costs €295. Its maker, Anglo-French perfume house Creed, also commands a premium price....
...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....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...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....
...For even as he was conquering Hollywood, Schwarzenegger – who idolised the actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan – was harbouring other ambitions....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...“Cutting woody stems at a clean angle, with another slit cut up the centre of this, will allow more water into the stem,” she says....
...Three years ago Sir Ronald Cohen, the veteran European venture capitalist, established a so-called Impact-Weighted Accounts research project at HBS....
...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....
...Last year, Joe Biden surpassed Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan to become the oldest sitting US president....
...L’Objet and The Haas Brothers’s incense promises to fill a space with dry, woody notes that are “native to the desert”, while Gucci’s bamboo interpretation burns into a heady mix of birch, orange leaves...
...Another approach Republicans could take is to go past the neoliberalism to liberalism (with a small L), to Adam Smith....
...Wilder co-wrote his screenplays with scribes such as Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, often in cantankerous relationships....
....” £130 for 50ml EDP; aesop.com Claire Choisne, creative director of Boucheron“My perfume is L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain....
...Almost any herbaceous plant with a woody rootstock and blue starry flowers was shunted into it without more analysis. Closer study of chromosomes then raised serious questions of identity....
...L’Ombre des Merveilles, the latest take on Hermès’ Eau des Merveilles scent, has a galaxy of stars scattered across its bottle, the scent laced with incense to intensify its otherworldliness....
...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?...
...He added: “A book whose aim is to throw me into the cursed cauldron into which, lately, photographer Hamilton, filmmakers Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have been thrown.”...
...A former assistant of Andy Warhol, the late Cutrone is known for his punchy paintings of American cartoon characters, such as Bugs Bunny, Jasmine from Aladdin and Woody Woodpecker....
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