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...“The current situation excludes many first-time buyers from the market and many smaller, cheaper properties can now only be targeted by investors,” says Thomas Lefebvre, head of research at Meilleurs Agents...
...Books were written arguing that Gandhi was an agent simultaneously of the British colonial state and of the Indian capitalist class; non-violence was presented as a cunning device to wean the masses away...
...Inside the shop, the city sounds faint beyond the archway. The room smells of pastels and the old wood of the furniture....
...The City was the natural place to do financial business in Europe and Brexit introduced a question mark into that. We weren't given enough information....
...Everyone wants their beauty products to come from natural, sustainable, animal-free sources – so much so that the “clean” movement has ballooned beyond smaller, independent brands, with the likes of L’Oréal...
...Job moves The law firm Mayer Brown has hired Barry Cosgrave as a partner in London. He joins from K & L Gates....
...He talks about Festima, the Festival of the Dancing Masks in the Burkina Faso city of Dedougou, where the city’s streets resound with the steady beat of hand drums and the shrill peal of whistles as mask-wearing...
...The village of Quarrata is the European base of British cycling and is home for the 2019 Tour de France runner-up Geraint Thomas....
...The company hired J & L Staffing & Recruiting, a Sioux City employment agency, to find workers....
...In the 70sq m space there is only a large bed and two pieces of meditative art, along with lots of rough-hewn oak and natural light....
...Paul Thomas Anderson and I are playing a game. “Well, what’s the part that you’re gonna play?”...
...“Most banks in the City of London had oligarchs and PEPs [politically exposed persons] amongst their clients, including major UK banks....
...Mehling, who manages the fossil collection at the American Museum of Natural History, replied, “You’re talking to the only person who cares.”...
...Then the troubles start. Building Olympic venues usually involves moving people from their homes. Often the Games just act as an accelerator for a city’s natural cruelty towards its poorer residents....
...In an echo of the 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle (“The history of the world is but the biography of great men”), they are held up as the unconventional “founding fathers” of postwar America, remaking...
...John Perlin, author of Let It Shine, the definitive history of solar power, describes Fritts as one of the 19th century’s great “zealous tinkerers”, like his contemporaries Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham...
...Though some of that can be attributed to natural disasters such as flooding or landslips, much of the heavy lifting is motivated by collecting or preserving historic architecture, say experts....
...Labelled the “Queen of Green”, she viewed commerce as an agent of social change and anger as a more useful business qualification than an MBA....
...Last time I was there, 12 years ago, the view from the Temple of Macaws, which sits atop the 30m-high Grand Pyramid, stretched across the palaces and pyramids of this once-lost city, surrounded as far as...
...in the city of Magnitogorsk, established his expertise as a historian of Stalinism....
...He pointed out that a wealthy person will not be as gratified as a poor person by winning a lottery....
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...That Used To be Us: What Went Wrong with America – and How It Can Come Back, by Thomas L Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, Little, Brown, RRP£25 A prominent journalist and an academic argue that America...
...The Smetana, built as the city’s German opera house and now known as the Prague State Opera, was one of several designed by the Viennese architectural firm of Fellner and Helmer (the Zurich Opera House is...
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