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...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...I, Joan, a new play by Charlie Josephine, in which the title character is non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns, is preparing for its opening tonight....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...“Our collections always connect with that heritage, which is as fascinating to our clients as it is to us.”...
...Charlie loves his business and trucking life. He hopes to expand to five lorries. But you should hear him on France and the Gendarmerie. Henry V would blush....
...Take her Self Evident series of eight portraits of black Britons, taken in 1995 and now part of the V&A collection....
...It gave us that accessibility which allowed us to make everything else better — bigger shows, invest in fabrics and grow the team.”...
...I watched Tearaway Charlie prance around my screen in 3D for the last time. Then I hovered my cursor, poised to click “sell”. But I couldn’t do it. He had already moved up from Class V to Class IV....
...And, thanks to one of the weirdest quirks in Britain’s eccentric system of government, in a sense Charlie Courtenay still does....
...Several other Covid-19 vaccines in development, including the Russian Sputnik-V and candidates from Johnson & Johnson of the US and CanSino of China, use adenoviruses....
...The upward swing of a “V” dip in growth after a hurricane comes from the rebuilding that puts contractors back to work....
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...All Of Us: A Young People’s History of the World, by Yvan Pommaux and Christophe Ylla-Somers, New York Review of Books, RRP£25/$29.95 An illustrated history of human civilisation, All Of Us breezes through...
...As long as the second V began only after November, Trump might just be re-elected. “From Trump’s point of view, there is no choice,” says Charlie Black, a senior Republican consultant and lobbyist....
...Mr Kulkarni said the sector would become more like “Apple v Samsung”, where biotechs competed on adding generation after generation of features....
...increase a company’s profit motive / From Charlie Coode, Richmond, Surrey, UK...
...That echoes populism’s only question: are you with us, or against us? Because either this is funny, or you aren’t....
...Suits v Sports: call a truce Too often, menswear is seen as a pitched battle between the threatened establishment and the clothing of the rabble....
...“Gucci gives us a huge impetus,” says Mark Glover of Respect For Animals, part of the Fur Free Alliance. “I think it will be seen as a huge milestone in years to come....
...Companies have been getting creative with the way they report earnings adjusted Ebitda, community adjusted Ebitda or, as Charlie Munger likes to call it, “bullshit earnings”....
...There are the “Je suis Charlie” placards held aloft in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the graphic responses to the outrage including Lucille Clerc’s powerful and poignant image of a broken pencil...
...Messi v the rest; Can Luis Suárez find redemption in Russia? Can one billionaire save Russian football? And for the less informed — A bluffers’ guide to football-speak....
...Read all of Charlie Porter’s SS18 menswear reviews at ft.com/fashion Photographs: Catwalking...
...One iteration of the Republican party’s tax bill is currently passing through the US House of Representatives....
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