...Club dinner at Mossiman's midweek, Monsieur Levy injected more V's - "for victory" - into his depiction of the recovery. He broke down patterns region by region and sector by sector, applying the V to China and Asia generally.The luxury goods purveyors were all...

The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

"Four score and seven years ago," Abraham Lincoln famously reminded an audience faced with a vast number of soldiers to

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Where Barney Frank, chairman of the US House of Representatives financial services committee, uses a scalpel, Chris Dodd,

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...choreographers. The resulting palette of often refreshingly démodé moods and methods is prominently on display this year at the Joyce (until Sunday), perhaps because of the subdued character of the season's premiere and featured repertory. Nicolette Depass and...

...Levaggi proved to possess that elusive talent. For Primo Toccare (First Touch) - the first of two programmes of his work at the Joyce this week - he hedges his bets, allowing himself and his collaborators to stuff the dance with accessory meanings. Art-fashion...

Like many ironists, Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui harbours a secret gushy heart, and in Orbo Novo it leaks out.

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