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...“With her lovely eyes she brought hellish ruin upon happy Troy,” spits Euripides’ Hecuba....
...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...The Yale family migrated from Wales to New York state, where in around 1840 Linus Yale Sr opened a store designing and making bank-standard locks....
...Driving it takes you skirting around the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, on the Gulf of St Lawrence, before looping down to the northern shore of the Bras d’Or Lake, one of the largest saltwater lakes...
...Usually these modes of perfection urge what Lawrence Gowing called the enduring “Raphael question”: essentially, can so much beauty really be truth?...
...“[It] hurts so deeply I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart,” said David Brown Sr. He had just weeks earlier been named chief of police of Dallas, Texas....
...A seven-bedroom home in Larchmont with views of Long Island Sound and Larchmont Harbor is on the market for $8.5m through Houlihan Lawrence....
...Estate agents in the mountain resort of Park City, Utah, were not surprised to see the home of Jon Huntsman Sr re-enter the market earlier this year with a listing price of $34m....
...And while the dynamics of Theorell’s stage direction occasionally collide with those of the opera, the music is superbly handled throughout by Lawrence Renes....
...“The biggest winners are those with bullish positions on risk assets, whether based on a belief in an improving economy or on looser monetary policy,” says Troy Gayeski, senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge...
...Gold was helped by the dollar’s modestly weaker tone, rising $3 to $1,402 a troy ounce....
...(Financial Times) - Vickers won’t be enough to stop another Libor type scandal, says Lawrence Kotlikoff....
...A few hours later, Mr Santorum held a town-hall meeting in the huge red Lawrence Barn in Hollis, close to the Massachusetts border....
...Gold also gave up its earlier gains, falling 1 per cent to $1,849.94 a troy ounce on profit taking. Oil has seen underlying support from the effects on inventory from weather risks this week....
...“A week ago, it was hard to find a bear in the oil market – today there is a hot debate on which direction crude will move next,” says Lawrence Eagles, head of oil research at JPMorgan in New York....
...If you have a cheery-chappy name such as Budd or Troy or Chip, then you will do well in sales, while a longer, straighter name such as Andrew will make you a perfect engineer....
...The precious metal, mainly used in catalytic converters that clean car exhausts, jumped 5 per cent to a peak of $768.22 a troy ounce. Platinum was up 1.6 per cent at $1,710.99 a troy ounce....
...Lawrence Eagles, head of oil research at JPMorgan in New York said in a note to clients: “$100 a barrel oil looms....
...Dave Applegate, Sr....
...In precious metals, gold fell 0.4 per cent to $1,131.85 a troy ounce on the spot market and silver lost 0.9 per cent to $17.60....
...Gold prices were largely unchanged on the week, with bullion on Friday trading at $1,115 a troy ounce in the London market....
...Among precious metals, gold retreated 3.2 per cent to $1,095.10 a troy ounce....
...Lawrence Eagles, head of commodity research at JPMorgan, said: “With so much refinery capacity currently shut due to poor economics, there is a large buffer in reserve.”...
...Gold slipped 0.6 per cent to $921.30 a troy ounce, moving in a narrow range between a low of $916.50 and a high of $929.45....
...Gold surged 6.9 per cent on Friday, to trade at $796.35 a troy ounce, its highest level since October 21, bringing its gains on the week to 7.5 per cent....
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