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...However, I do check in for an opinion from Dame Mary Beard, the rock star scholar of Ancient Rome....
...Last November it was reborn as a hotel, courtesy of restaurant impresario Roland Mary (who owns Borchardt, Berlin’s answer to The Wolseley)....
...Leader Mary Lou McDonald said that was “for those whose political allegiance is to the British crown”....
...Assisi is a donkey ride away and St Francis was a frequent visitor....
...Still, building up cricket in the States may prove to be more of a Hail Mary than a slam dunk....
...The location in the old city, just below St Peter’s cave church, where the apostle and St Paul are believed to have worshipped, and close to the world-class archaeology museum, appeared perfectly positioned...
...So they flogged tickets outside St Paul’s Church and gave the lottery a catchy jingle, sung to the melody of “The Lusty Gallant”. The jackpot went to a London tailor....
...Terrel Williams, a gun owner and former marine who said he was shot in 2001 when driving from DC to St Louis, called for greater engagement....
...His work with Foster + Partners, including London’s domineering 30 St Mary Axe, the updated Reichstag in Berlin, and other high-tech architectural projects (he’s one of the most prolific architects of his...
...The view was echoed by Quincy Crosby, strategist at Prudential Financial, who noted that wages would need to pick up at a faster clip to cement the odds of a rate rise....
...As for JPMorgan, Marianne Lake, chief financial officer, and Mary Erdoes, head of asset management, are members of a more important clique: people seen as contenders to succeed Mr Dimon....
...After a two-year, multimillion-euro renovation overseen by Campbell Gray’s frequent collaborator, decorator Mary Fox Linton, it soft-opened last July....
...A nuclear bomb shelter was one feature of the 1950s blueprint for a new Financial Times head office near St Paul’s Cathedral....
...Ronald Kruszewski, chairman and chief executive, has argued that the turmoil at big European banks, in particular, represents a historic opportunity for the St Louis-based firm to win business....
...Another top Morgan Stanley female executive, star internet analyst Mary Meeker, moved to Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers four years ago....
...Threadneedle, currently based at St Mary Axe next to the Gherkin, instructed property adviser CBRE to search for new offices at the end of June last year....
...Skanska was also involved in the building of the Gherkin (formally known as 30 St Mary Axe) — not an easy job, as “no two parts are the same”, says Putnam. “It’s the complexity of that radius.”...
...St Stephen’s Green and the downtown area are a short walk away, as is Herbert Park, which for my money is the best park in the city....
...Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25 / Random House, RRP$30 Although the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter...
...It is relatively easy for Standard Life, already London listed and with 90 per cent of its UK customers outside Caledonia’s borders, to push the Beam-Me-Up-Scottie button and move to St Mary’s Axe....
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...And finally …the lighter side of the news ● The battle to own an iconic piece of the London skyline is hotting up with property investors lining up their bids for 30 St Mary Axe, which is better known by...
...On Wall St the S&P 500 closed at a record high of 1,896.6 and investors bought back in to technology stocks after a lengthy sell-off....
...The church of St Mary Redcliffe was built by aspiring merchants, with a porch of intersecting hexagonal geometry – a strikingly Islamic design that might have seemed to some inappropriate for a venue of...
...James Gerry, a church warden at St Mary Woolnoth who also works in insurance, observes the majority of the church’s congregation are professionals....
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