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...Firms like Lazard are desperate to woo C-suite executives as a means to eventually get those mandates....
...We’ll first catch up on neighbourhood gossip – mostly about how many cruffins she ate the prior day from C&B on 7th Street – and then get to work....
...Almost exactly 100 years ago, in February 1921, Margaret C Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of the New York-based literary magazine The Little Review, lost an obscenity trial....
...In Tiepolo’s “Triumph of the Arts and Sciences” (c.1731), painting lasts forever. It didn’t turn out like that....
...John C Bogle, a champion of stock investing for average people, passed away on the 16th of January....
...As the political theorist Jon Elster wrote in his classic book, Ulysses Unbound, “sometimes there are benefits from having fewer opportunities.”. Now, almost everybody should disagree with this....
...The back of the watch is engraved with Néry’s signature, an image of a diver and the record-breaking depth. c.£16,500 ($21,100) 5....
...(LUC are the initials of Louis-Ulysse Chopard, the brand’s founder.)...
...Under its original name Cantrell & Cochrane it was even mentioned in James Joyce’s epic 1922 novel Ulysses when the hero Leopold Bloom notices the “multicoloured hoardings for Cantrell & Cochrane’s ginger...
...The challenge now, Mr Doss says, is to discover the millions of Egyptians who are infected but do not know it....
...“We hope to reduce prevalence to 3 per cent over the next six years,” says Dr Wahid Doss, head of Egypt’s committee for viral hepatitis control....
...Additional reporting by Leyla Doss...
...Chopard’s L.U.C 8HF has a balance wheel that can oscillate at 57,600vph. and is the first 8hz movement to be awarded COSC certification for accuracy....
...The depressive Abraham Lincoln and General William Tecumseh Sherman and the alcoholic Ulysses S....
...Chopard Looking sober and ready for business, the L.U.C. XP Tonneau in white gold is powered by an ultra-thin or extra-plat (hence the XP) L.U.C. Calibre 3.97....
...Among the lots will be the first of a series of Chopard watches called the L.U.C Louis-Ulysse “Tribute” that celebrates this year’s 150th anniversary of Chopard....
...Half a century ago, Kirk Douglas could play Ulysses and Spartacus, Charlton Heston could incarnate Ben Hur and El Cid....
...Back in the age of hickory sticks, there was Ulysses S. Grant: “It does look like a very good exercise, but what is the little white ball for?”...
...One of these, the L.U.C Louis-Ulysse, is truly brilliant – it is a wristwatch that converts into a pocket watch....
...Tunisia can get hot – it was 40°C during our visit – and at Bulla Regia, our next port of call, they had a unique way of dealing with it....
...The silence ended two years ago when the committee chaired by Dr Doss was established....
...But he knew what he wanted: he went through four generals before Ulysses S Grant showed the degree of urgency he demanded....
...A fine example of James Joyce’s Ulysses, from the edition limited to 100 copies, can sell for more than £100,000....
...Joyce’s Ulysses 23. a) Darth Vader’s Helmet is: iv) Walbrook Square b) Cheese Grater is: iii) The Leadenhall Building c) Walkie Talkie is: ii) 20 Fenchurch Street d) Helter Skelter is: i) The Bishopsgate...
...For example, it would probably be a surprise to the brand’s founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, to discover that the specialist watch (and only watch) brand his descendant Paul-Andre Chopard sold to Karl Scheufele...
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