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...The London Legacy Development Corporation, in charge of planning for the area around the Olympic Park, declined to accept new buildings devoted to a single religious faith....
...Banks appear to have passed the first test: a short but pronounced period of market mayhem and a co-ordinated drawdown of hundreds of billions of dollars of credit by corporations feeling the strain....
...Even the most monstrous sitcom characters – Malcolm Tucker, the malevolent spin-doctor from Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It, for example – are absorbed by the political mainstream as weirdly loveable...
...One thing is certain: multi-national corporations will not be able to ignore the growing presence of New Champions....
...At the book’s heart is Mikhail Gorbachev, a Lear-esque hero, who gave away what he should have retained to a west bent less on emancipation than exploitation....
...Kingdom Holding also owns the Hotel George V, Paris, and has real estate and banking interests across the world....
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