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...Her broader riposte is her latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), which retells the siege of Troy through the voice of Briseis, the young queen who became Achilles’ sex slave....
...Jonathan Saunders’ unisex colour block designs in shades of sea and sand for Troy Schumacher did that 2017 thing of risking clash and chaos for an advanced order of harmony....
...Plus the FT's Anna Nicolaou and Hearst's Troy Young join as guests....
...The Salento of his youth “was a bit like the Macondo of [Gabriel Garcia] Marquez”, magic and reality coexisting....
...Among the suggested rules is to never bring a check to Mexican diners unless it is requested, says Felipe Garcia, the city’s head of Mexican marketing....
...We all know the story of Helen of Troy, the woman with the face that launched a thousand ships....
...Gold was down $12, at $1,572 a troy ounce....
...Commodities are generally firmer, with Gold climbing 0.4 per cent to $1,681 a troy ounce, as data compiled by Bloomberg showed the holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products rose to a record 2,406...
...The dollar index was down 0.3 per cent, while gold added 0.2 per cent to $1,723 a troy ounce. Brent crude was also in demand, rising 0.4 per cent to $117.87 a barrel....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 is up 1.1 per cent, a fresh five-month high, while gold has broken back above its 200-day moving average, up 1.6 per cent to $1,636 a troy ounce....
...self-explanatory chart: As we noted in early September, with inflation expectations low it isn’t just the inflationistas buying up gold, which yesterday jumped two per cent to hit a new (nominal) high of $1,274.75 a troy...
...The shift in central banks’ attitude towards gold, coupled with renewed US dollar weakness on Tuesday, propelled gold prices to a fresh nominal high of $1,274.75 a troy ounce, up nearly 2 per cent on...
...“Despite the sizeable additional capital requirements … we see the announcements as positive,” said Antonio Garcia Pascual, an economist at Barclays Capital....
...In Greek myth, Leda had sex with a swan, which was the god Zeus in disguise, and the result was Helen of Troy. On Garcia’s canal there is not one swan but two....
...The Troy, Michigan, company declared bankruptcy a week after he stepped down....
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