Hints and tips:
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...“Paradise Edict” is a monumental painting of writhing bodies in a gorgeous, snake-infested Eden, based on Kenya’s forested coast at the Somalia border, contested by al-Shabaab and the Kenya Defence Forces...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Lodge for two from €190; berberlodge.net Dar al Hossoun, Taroudant Just outside the small walled city of Taroudant in the Souss valley, this 16-room retreat is renowned for its gardens....
...Last month, CDPQ along with Al Gore’s Generation bought a majority stake of UK-based wealth management service provider FNZ in a $2.2bn deal....
...Unsurprisingly, too, she talks about music, what it did for her and others, how the “first true punks” — Siouxsie et al — came out of different suburbs (the so-called Bromley Contingent): though she didn...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Mohammed Al-Jadaan, the Saudi finance minister, told the FT that Riyadh expected to make a decision by the end of this year so that a listing could take place late in 2018....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...makers et al, on pared-down steel machines looking groovy outside Italian coffee bars....
...Think off-duty LA – Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian et al scurrying from jeep to studio backdoor to avoid the paparazzi. Owner Barry Jay opened the first Bootcamp studio in West Hollywood in 1998....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...As Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Monti et al gear up for the much-ballyhooed Italian elections next weekend, which helpfully coincide with the opening of Milan Fashion Week, political watchers can anticipate...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...lighters that finally convinced me that Joe Strummer et al were the way forward....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
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