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...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...In 1935, King George V made Buchan, henceforth Lord Tweedsmuir, governor-general of Canada, a position that enabled him to indulge his love of the outdoors and develop an important friendship with President...
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Here Washington, Jefferson, Madison et al — the men at the birth of a nation — speak in the voice of those still left behind by that nation more than 200 years later....
...Although it is now the “new naturalism” of Oudolf et al that is resented, the struggle to define this corrupting Dutch influence continues....
...Read the full piece by the FT's Thomas Hale here....
...Equally compelling is the story of Thomas Dallam, who in 1599 travelled to Constantinople with a clockwork organ sent as a gift from Elizabeth I to the Sultan....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Bye bye, feudals; hello, oh-oh, Mr Thomas Cromwell....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...On the flip side, one study (Chen et al., 2011) concluded that the inflationary consequences of QE1 and QE2 were less than 50bps....
...al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...In Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964) Richard Burton’s Thomas Becket takes on a king....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...He is now teaching at King’s College London and I met him one afternoon in Holborn....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Thomas Friedman describes Obama’s victory as the end of the American Civil War....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...And the scientific jargon attached to them – “hyaluronics”, “peptides” et al – only adds to the confusion....
...Back to cov-lite loans – though we really need Goldman et al here to answer some of these questions. There is, claims one of the panel, some confusion about cov-lites....
...Although the modern setting is entirely familiar, it still yields a few welcome surprises, particularly the opening encounter with the Eastcheap trio, which paints Pistol et al as Little Britain-esque reprobates...
...Petty bureaucracy is the bane of many business leaders’ lives and Mervyn King, Bank of England governor, can sympathise....
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