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...To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, those willing to give up on democracy for the sake of economic growth will end up losing both....
...Additional reporting by Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, but consumers there have mostly shunned it....
...Bhutan’s bet on crypto, which follows that of other countries such as El Salvador and the Central African Republic, comes despite the sell-offs, contagion and scandals that have rocked the sector....
...Breton’s group initially consisted of poets experimenting with automatic writing, but it was in the clash of incongruous images in visual art that Surrealism achieved its disquieting icons: Salvador Dalí...
...My colleague Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi has the story here....
...But ultimately launching in Europe became the obvious choice, Benjamin Chemla, Shares’ CEO and co-founder told me last month....
...Castillo’s second prime minister, Mirtha Vásquez, abruptly announced the government would seek to close four privately owned gold and silver mines “as soon as possible”, unnerving many in the sector who...
...He repeats Salvador Dalí’s famous line about Hitler unleashing the second world war “not to win, as most people think, but to lose”....
...American Rai Benjamin took silver. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an Olympics....
...The US justice department’s decision to abandon the case against Salvador Cienfuegos, a 72-year-old retired four-star general, came barely a month after his arrest at a Los Angeles airport, which threatened...
...Israel’s finance ministry civil servants say billions in pandemic aid is being used to serve Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition instead of supporting the economy....
...Washington has gotten tougher, signing deals with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to force migrants to seek asylum there first, not in the US. It's a very big thing....
...Born in 1898 into the vastly wealthy New York family, Peggy had lost her father Benjamin Guggenheim on the Titanic in 1912; on her 21st birthday she inherited a mere $2.5m (about $36m in today’s values),...
...Salvador Panelo, Mr Duterte’s spokesman, expressed confidence in Mr Diokno, saying the country’s banking institutions were “in good and competent hands”....
...In September Starbucks committed $20m to smallholder farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Nicaragua....
...It is here that she met Benjamin while working on the trading desk at AIG, the US insurer....
...Born in El Salvador and raised in Colombia and Zaire, Ariane Langner married into what is probably the most famous banking dynasty in the world....
...Vásquez was pardoned last year, after serving seven years of her 30-year sentence for aggravated murder....
...I was intrigued when the designer Jonathan Anderson declared of his relationship with Benjamin Bruno, who collaborates with him on his namesake label JW Anderson and at Spanish house Loewe: “Ben has the...
...“We’re enjoying an exciting resurgence of 1970s and 1980s-inspired bold, exotic contrasts in materials and colours,” says Benjamin Peak, the company’s managing director....
...“I’ve always said the Rothschild name belongs to Benjamin, not me. I say, ‘David, I’m not a Rothschild and I don’t pretend to be one but Benjamin is and my daughters are.’...
...Benjamín Rivera, 40, the guide-cum-driver, was desperate for me to see the bird life and hike through the tropical forest – one of the few areas of true wilderness left in this densely populated, intensively...
...Quicksand, by Steve Toltz, Sceptre, RRP£17.99 If anything can go wrong, it will — and it inevitably does so in the vicinity of Aldo Benjamin, Quicksand’s luckless protagonist....
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