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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Rhiannon HamamIf you’d like to go to another abortion provider, if you are an undocumented person in the Rio Grande Valley and you’re driving, when you’re leaving the Rio Grande Valley, you have to pass...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...“Companies have underdelivered the IPO promise,” said Tracy Dolin-Benguigui, a Barclays equity research analyst who covers insurance companies....
...E&V is selling a three-bedroom villa with pool near Anacapri for €2.15m....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...The show’s central installation, an impressionistic mock-up of the “Grande Descente”, the operatic stair designed to show off the sweep of ladies’ dresses, becomes downmarket Duchamp with added twinkling...
...Growers with vines in hilly sites such as Monts Damnés, Coteaux du Chavignol, La Grande Côte and Chêne Marchand include these cru names on labels....
...Meanwhile the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice is home to Magister Canova, a digital show that attempts to evoke the sculptor’s vision through a multimedia installation of virtual imagery, music...
...It may be the grande dame of Paris, but it’s still got no shortage of sass....
...The dish, known as Soupe V.G.E., is still served to this day....
...Tracy Hofman London W8, UK Letter in response to this letter The FT is no place for such bigoted language / From Graham Brown...
...Trump v Clinton in the US on Monday. Trump v Carstens in Mexico on Thursday....
...Alongside the obvious downside risks, though, he argues there are also upside risks for Central America, if the sub-region benefits from the knock-on effects of fiscal stimulus north of the Rio Grande....
...Michael Tory London W2, UK Letters in response to this letter: Project Fear rubbished the UK’s outstanding progress / From Hugh Marsden British politics needs more grandes dames / From Tracy Hofman...
...Gradually, she became a grande dame of stage and screen, a survivor and a mother. She married again, with the utmost respectability, and returned to a throne of universal affection....
...Online shopping is about shipping Leslie Hook has visited an Amazon distribution centre in Tracy, California to get the lowdown on a company pushing logistics to its limits with same-day and one-hour delivery...
...Sir, With reference to Gideon Rachman (“The clash of civilisations revisited”, November 17): the issue is much bigger than Muslim v non-Muslim....
...A grande guignol of the lissom male bodies that were a Carpaccio trademark, skewered against trees whose naked branches map the victims’ porcelain-smooth limbs, it chronicles the legend of the imperial Roman...
...England v Scotland was not much better, as the English spurned try-scoring opportunity after opportunity....
...We suppose you’re probably looking at something like this and may v well already be washed out… We’ll come back to that chart in moment....
...What particularly struck our eye was the question of “How much better is Grand Theft Auto V than Grand Theft Auto IV?” (Tip of the hat to Tracy Alloway for highlighting this.)...
...No grande nation worth its salt would balance its budget on the orders of some bumptious bureaucratic bean-counter in Brussels....
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