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...in buying Manchester United....
...Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, was one of the most vocal members of the Trump administration opposed to the Huawei decision....
...As Japan lifted its state of emergency in late May to reflect falling Covid-19 cases, Daiichi Sankyo launched breast cancer drug Enhertu....
...The couple is pictured heading to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, where he picked up a gong given to Instagram from one of the most famous Instagrammers of all (with 37.1 million followers...
...“It bothers me a lot that you want to . . . broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” he told the woman, who goes by the name of V Stiviano....
...Ms Stiviano, who is of Mexican and black ancestry, says at one point: “I wish I could change the colour of my skin.” “You miss the issue.” “What’s the issue?”...
...for one of America’s most revered pop artists....
...with white squiggles, which then mixed devoré leather knit tops with black and white ostrich feather skirts, concluding with two terrific shifts covered in what looked like vertical black or silver chain...
...Upcoming cruises on the Silver Explorer include Antarctica, Central and South America, the Northwest Passage, and the Russian far east....
...Witness, for example, one of the few pieces from this period that made it into the show and one of its highlights: the shimmering silver-white dress worn by Irene Bullock (or Carole Lombard) during the nocturnal...
...Originally published in 2006 in two separate volumes, they are here united in one book. Collect it while you can....
...Seven years later the ne plus ultra of little black dresses – Audrey Hepburn’s Givenchy black satin column frock from the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany’s – was sold at Christie’s in London for £807,000...
...On day one Ron Kitaj “spotted this boy with short black hair and huge glasses, wearing a boilersuit, making the most beautiful drawing I’d ever seen in an art school....
...an angry looking horned dragon in burnished silver ($24); a manacle of black and gold uncoupled zipper halves ($28, a little itchy); a 6in black slotted leather cuff ($22); and a black armlet with a double...
...nouveau desk Louis Majorelle This elegant desk was made around 1905 at one of the Majorelle family’s cabinet- making workshops in France....
...But the Tamil struggle for an independent state in Sri Lanka has been spearheaded by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – deemed by the west to be one of the world’s most sophisticated terrorist...
...Displaying one of his signature silver-leaf finishes, this desk has a three-drawer pedestal, a built-in lead-lined jardinière and a carved Greek-key pattern....
...These had been estimated at €2,000- €8,000, but to the astonishment of the saleroom, two unidentified buyers – one in the room and one on the telephone – battled for each: one paid €46,600, 10 times the...
...And destroy the Bank of the United States Jackson did, vetoing the Senate’s renewal of its charter in 1832 and running for re-election as the champion of People v Monster....
...“You have to attack in order to win,” Mr Cavalli said before his show, which featured an army of models attacking the runway in a bling-beatnik uniform of black miniskirts or dresses punctuated by grommets...
...Hoffman, one of the founders of the famous Wiener Werkstätte (the Viennese Workshops), designed this chalice-like centerpiece circa 1925-1931....
...The Council of Fashion Designers of America is all for it....
...Prince and co suddenly curb the desire to spend that has made America such an ideal luxury market; or maybe it was just the sight of President Nicolas Sarkozy embracing former president Bill Clinton last...
...Meanwhile, ahead of Hines’s silver Ford Mustang GT convertible, a painful memory of the past rears up against the sunset: the deserted skyscraper of Enron, the failed energy trading company that called Houston...
...I love the architecture, the oldness of it, obviously Harrods and Harvey Nichols, my favourite stores in the world. London has Starbucks on every corner like the United States.”...
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