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...But, as Susan Shirk shows in Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise (Oxford University Press £19.99), things had begun to go sour, well before Xi took power....
...The lazy susan in the centre of the table struggles to rotate. People clamber over each other to reach the dishes. I’m much more of a savoury person, but I love the gimmicky theatrics of dessert....
...“She said that knitting could be done on autopilot,” says RSN chief executive Susan Kay-Williams of her predecessor....
...As well as buying art, Petalas has commissioned two works — a sound piece by Susan Philipsz which plays when the front door is opened, and a Prem Sahib mirror work placed in the downstairs bathroom....
...At Christie’s New York in April, the long-lost “Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony”, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the 1530s, soared three times over expectations to sell for $7.7m....
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...Susan Bickley was the eloquent mezzo soloist....
...March 10-19, tefaf.com Photographs: Galerie Bernard Dulon; Hughes Dubois; Galerie Lucas Ratton...
...The scandals have included allegations of sexual harassment raised by former employee Susan Fowler, a trade secrets lawsuit from Alphabet’s self-driving car unit Waymo, and an embarrassing video in which...
...First-hand reports of sexual harassment in the tech world, which started earlier this year with the devastating account of former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, have spread....
...As for the Madonna in western art, Richard Feigen flourishes a recently rediscovered and affecting gold ground panel by the distinctive 14th-century Sienese master Luca di Tommè....
...It could be considered even less suited to the congregation of Sheffield Cathedral, which is where it is installed until December 12, alongside work by Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas and Susan Philipz; all...
...Luca Baroni offers three of the best, including a Gauguin gouache, “Nègreries Martinique” (1890, £1.3m), and a wonderfully fresh Cézanne (£650,000)....
...More fuel came from an antifeminist vanguard mapped in Susan Faludi’s seminal 1991 text Backlash. Nowhere was this change of mood clearer than in the response to Lucian Freud in his latter years....
...Susan Wagner, BlackRock co-founder, becomes the second woman on Apple’s board....
...“Plan sponsors are naturally very focused on ensuring high participation in their 401(k) plans,” says Ms Lucas....
...“There are a lot of misconceptions,” says Susan Brantley, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University....
...London’s Luca Baroni seems to sum up the response of many of the fair’s exhibitors....
...Narrator Luca, apprentice to the great sculptor Donatello, witnesses the creation of a masterpiece: his “David”, the first full-size bronze nude for 1,000 years....
...Sotheby’s strong northern offering of July 4 includes Lucas Cranach the Elder’s impressive Feilitzsch Altarpiece, commissioned in 1511 (£4m-£6m)....
...His wife, Susan, takes two weeks’ holiday to help with lambing, as does son Joe, a dry stone waller, and daughter Jamie. “Our farm can only support one of us....
...Now grown up, Garner’s hero, Colin, works at Jodrell Bank as an astronomer and Susan has vanished, possibly living in the Pleiades....
...As for the painting prize, donated by the Palazzo Tornabuoni, that went to Luca Giordano’s delectably silvery and richly impasted “Christ before Caiaphas”, on offer at La Pinacoteca at €450,000....
...Susan Elderkin is author of ‘The Voices’ (Fourth Estate)...
...He wins it on an unexpectedly high 7% swing and a 77% turnout. 5.50 KS: Caroline Lucas wins. The Greens have their first MP....
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