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...Into Africa: the NBA’s next $1bn investment Living in Los Angeles as a young financier, Tope Lawani said he had “never been so proud to be Nigerian” as he was watching Hakeem Olajuwon lead the Houston Rockets...
...Richard Neutra, the Vienna-born architect to California’s eccentric avant-garde, designed a beautiful Super-Plywood House in Los Angeles in 1936....
...The Los Angeles County Museum of Art inaugurated a permanent collection of Mexican silver in 2013 and several other US shows are in the works....
...All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, Picador, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$27 For six days in 1992, Los Angeles rioted, the police retreated and the city’s gangs ran wild....
...Cities built around the car, like much of Los Angeles and Phoenix and Houston, have enormous, gently curving roads and often lack sidewalks....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...Sandy Banks from the Los Angeles Times describes growing up black in practically-segregated Cleveland, Ohio, and revisiting her home town as the elections approached ....
...Dr Nick Lowe, author of The Wrinkle Revolution (Kyle Cathie) and a dermatologist with offices in Los Angeles and London, has some surprisingly unsophisticated answers....
...The mavericks were Cage, Conlon Nancarrow and Frederic Rzewski, composers whose preoccupation with musical process (synchronicity, the dynamics of repetition et al) cannot hide a uniform thinness of content...
...The Los Angeles Times concluded much the same: Bush, the newspaper found, won 97 of America’s 100 fastest-growing counties - the ex-urban areas....
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