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...came up with its Great Gatsby theme for Poland’s richest man in 2010, and watched the yacht become an in-demand charter vessel (starting price: €1mn a week; Magic Johnson hung out on board with Samuel L...
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...As the futurist Arthur C Clarke had it, “Any sufficiently evolved technology is indistinguishable from magic.”...
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...As you step down from its railway station — a 35-minute ride from central London — there is not an empty window in the smart parade of boutique shops....
...Dude ranches In the Rockies west of Denver, the C Lazy U ranch has been welcoming visitors for a taste of cowboy life since the 1920s....
...After such astonishing crime epics as L.A....
...David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages, praised TSB for “having a go” in an area of the market that many other lenders had long since eschewed, but added that the fleeting nature of the offer...
...Refining capacity is to shrink c.30% by 2030, from c.1.7mbd to 1.5mbd by 2025 then to 1.2mbd by 2030....
...& C Hardtmuth of Austria....
...We estimate Whitbread's annual rates bill is c.£120m, equivalent to c.35% of FY20e PBT (Feb YE). Mitchells & Butlers' rates bill is also around c.£100m, c.50% of FY19 PBT (Sep YE)....
...General Fusion also secured an additional C$50m (US$38m) from Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund, it said....
...“Oui, oui, oui, c’est magnifique.”...
...Traditionally, minute repeaters are activated using a clumsy-looking “slide” at the side of the case band. But all the functions of the Full Strike are controlled by the crown....
...The London Eye, however, is a permanent, private ride and an extremely expensive one, on public land....
...The latest moves come as Greenhill tries to reverse a revenue and stock price slide having completed a recapitalisation in late 2017....
...by Barkley L Hendricks, who died this year....
...An indulgence I would never forgo is my Wednesday-morning bike ride....
...Angel L....
...Plates of ice slide along on the current, thickening and merging. As it freezes into a soup, pack ice forms and fit young Québécois shake out their neoprene wetsuits....
...In their bones they are conservative with a small “c”. They lobby harder for the status quo than reform, unless the latter involves tax cuts....
...Chanel embodied her own style, epitomising chic in the way she wore her designs and in the double intertwined “C” that became her logo....
...Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Janet L. Yellen, Chair; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Lael Brainard; Stanley Fischer; Richard W. Fisher; Loretta J. Mester; Charles I....
...Just the odd vibration passing through the G.L.A.C.’s innards, set off by huge things, things at the scale of the city....
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