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...Analysts suspect Chinese companies are just getting started, the FT’s Hudson Lockett and Mercedes Ruehl report....
...“Our ‘reflation trade part II’ call from last August continues to play out and is now breaking out on a longer-term basis....
...“What happened yesterday is unacceptable to me,” the president said of the Syria gas attack during a press conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan....
...(i) Eminem (ii) the Rolling Stones had a vocabulary of 2794 words, compared to the Who’s 1794. 31....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture, by Andrei S Markovits and Lars Rensmann, Princeton University Press RRP£20.95 A very readable guide to the recent globalisation of...
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...The final cost of the S&L crisis between 1986 and 1995 was $153bn, or about 3 per cent of 1989 gross domestic product, of which taxpayers had to pay $124bn....
...The process was repeated every few weeks, following the alternate arrivals of the SS Bremen and SS Europa at the nearby Hudson River piers.”...
...Blaine, Theodore Roosevelt, etc....
...They are collected in this volume, one of 2006’s most satisfying page-turners....
...s ?extraordinary leadership?. In particular, he recalled a friend?s explanation that the difference between ?...
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