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...Founded in 2018 by chief executive Merck Mercuriadis and Nile Rodgers, HSF was a big winner as investors turned to alternative investments, including song rights, during the era of low interest rates....
...Last week government forces re-entered Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city across the Nile....
...It was a fear I felt, watching the delightfully theatrical collections of Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, whose influence has been profound since their arrival in Paris in the 1980s and...
...Papyrus, planted long ago, is a reminder of Egypt and the Nile, and, as in Roman pools of antiquity, a symbol of imperial reach....
...It is easily the most delightful place on the Nile. I stayed in the comforting embrace of the Old Cataract Hotel. Built in 1899 by Thomas Cook, it shares the Sudan’s retro charm....
...At the end, he looks at the work of Thomas Piketty. Today, he argues, we have more theories, more data and a wider focus on both national and global inequality. We also have more concern....
...Ricardo Reis: There are no silver bullets....
...Thomas Brooman was one of the founders of the festival, having impressed Peter Gabriel as a “likely lad” when he interviewed him for the Bristol Recorder, a local music magazine....
...Ricardo Reis: No. It might, but it does not have to. Anonymous: Yes....
...His capital market days have featured his high-profile friends and partners such as Nile Rodgers of Chic and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi....
...Ricardo Reis, a professor at the London School of Economics, says that the key test now is “how credible and strong are the central banks’ commitment to bring inflation down to target”....
...The musician Nile Rodgers talked about the rise of disco. The scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock talked about space....
...Afonso Reis e Sousa, currently the engineer’s treasurer and head of tax, will succeed Cochran on the same date....
...flirted with the idea of epidemic forecasting for several years, harnessing the computing power of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to predict the spread of flu and mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile...
...I reject the temptation to nick Holbein’s scheming Thomas Cromwell, aware that my lease on the gallery of dreams is nearly up....
...Ricardo Reis: They will probably feel better than today; I expect real incomes to grow....
...But it was reading Thomas Pakenham’s book The Scramble for Africa (1990) and understanding that, in marching to Bagamoyo, Livingstone’s companions unwittingly facilitated Africa’s colonisation, that convinced...
...Thomas Niles Stamford, CT, US...
...Rio’s Tom Jobim airport is two and half hours’ drive from Angra Dos Reis, or 25 minutes from the helipad....
...Letter in response to this editorial: Merkel has cause to tell US envoy to pack his bags / From Thomas Niles, Stamford, CT, US...
...Still more important, the old adversaries would never go to war again; the closest they came was the pumped-up “Fashoda crisis” over claims to the Upper Nile at the end of the century....
...The Egyptians used census records to calculate the labour required to build the pyramids, and to apportion land after the flooding of the Nile....
...Still more influential is Japanese iconoclast, Rei Kawakubo, who will be the subject of a retrospective this spring at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art....
...It is, he says, “sort of like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, but instead of 30 years compressed into three hours it [is] seven years compressed into seven minutes”....
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