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...He said the Solvency II regime that governed the insurance sector was a key area where reform was needed. “We will [then] be able to allocate more capital to investing in long term infrastructure.”...
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...In 1906, Leopold II created L’Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) along with a diamond-mining business and railway company to exploit Congo’s mineral resources....
...Economics & Business Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century fuelled the debate about growing inequality, returns with another weighty tome....
...Swiss drugmaker Roche has named Thomas Schinecker as head of its diagnostics business, replacing Roland Diggelmann, who left the role last August....
...Trompe l’oeil is everywhere....
...Flicke has added a trompe-l’oeil vertical bar painted to look like flaking wood, as if separating the two men as well as shutting them off from the world....
...Landon Thomas and Jack Ewing of Dealbook have happened across a delicious leak of ECB council minutes, running from May 2012 to January 2013....
...Henry IV, Parts I & II, Barbican, London The best Falstaffs are generally the more philosophical ones, and Antony Sher’s performance falls excellently into this category....
...Thomas Adès, Aimard’s predecessor at Aldeburgh, is not wholly enamoured of Britten’s operas (though this was not held against him during his time at the festival), least of all Grimes, which he has described...
...Sir John Thomas takes up the top job....
...Simon Rogan, L’Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria “I’d love someone to buy me all three volumes of Marc Veyrat’s L’Encyclopédie Culinaire du XXIe Siècle (Phileas Fogg)....
...Lutter & Wegner (Kulmstrasse 3; www.l-w-berlin.de) is the seaside outpost of a slick Berlin restaurant....
...Homme qui Marche II”....
...Honeybee Democracy, by Thomas D Seeley, Princeton University Press RRP£20.95 The year’s most enchanting science book....
...Blue Gene L with a processing power of 1.1 petaflops leads the world rankings at present....
...Geithner, Vice Chairman; Charles L. Evans; Thomas M. Hoenig; Donald L. Kohn; Randall S. Kroszner; Eric S. Rosengren; and Kevin M. Warsh....
...In other words, forget the pro-cyclicality of Basle II. Here we have potential for a hormonal boom and bust....
...The US critics H.L....
...Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization By Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia L....
...“Hank” Greenberg, the former AIG chief who is fighting civil charges filed by the New York attorney general, and given that two other committee members, Wilbur L. Ross Jr and Kenneth C....
...No sooner had he published Arden II than Arden III went into production....
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
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