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...According to three people close to the company, a funding round worth more than $100mn last month from a group of 10 investors including the charitable foundation run by hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen...
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...But Steven Riley, a professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London and a member of Sage’s modelling subcommittee SPI-M, warned the rise in cases and hospital admissions was likely to...
...Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London, is more optimistic....
...The writer was opposition research counsel for George H W Bush’s 1988 campaign So much for the Republicans as the party of Abraham Lincoln....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Or that the movie is pie-eyed over the royal visit of Queen Mary and George V at a time when our own royal family is dodging controversy. We cleave to the upstairs-downstairs symbiosis of Downton....
...Weight restrictions dictate that only one bus in each direction is permitted to cross at any one time The annual Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race takes in the entirety of the Barnes waterfront....
...Cameron went straight from Oxford to the Conservative Party’s research department, where he later encountered his successor in the Bullingdon and future chancellor, George Osborne....
...The house is in a 1990s development in Barnes, on a quiet curve of the Thames in west London....
...Rest in peace Aretha, and George. And have a good weekend (particularly American readers who get a long weekend for Labor Day)....
...Cebile Capital, a private equity placement agent, has hired Steven Westerback as president, head of the Americas....
...Here are three pieces of recommended reading: Matt Latimer, George W....
...Donald Trump has nominated Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive who played a central role in the property developer’s election campaign, to be the next US Treasury secretary....
...“What you’re going to end up with is fewer theatres,” George Lucas said during a panel at the University of Southern California in 2013. “Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things....
...Martin Barnes is senior curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ‘Beneath the Surface’ opens May 21 at Somerset House, London WC2....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...George Clooney can make a mid-budget movie because he has more leverage. It’s just very, very hard for normal people....
...“I remember coming up with a lot of little phrases while he sat at the table,” recalled George Harrison of the holiday. “If anybody said anything it would go in the book.”...
...The story for Hombre was published in 1961, when Leonard was moving into crime writing, mingling his existing style with the urban vernacular of George V Higgins, the Boston-based author of The Friends of...
...Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...V; even the butler is the venerable Charles Kay, with an implausible Brummagem accent....
...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...
...Bernanke as “almost treasonous” grabbed headlines, Mr Romney, the most moderate (or least conservative) of the frontrunners, said last week he would not keep Mr Bernanke, a former adviser to President George...
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