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...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...the Vanderbilts and Astors, the wealthiest families in America, as well as to a community of artists and writers that included Edith Wharton and Henry James....
...Superable, 25, recalls asking herself. “Every other ethnic group does.”...
...A stylish state-of-the-art refurb will open in August....
...Flanked by former vice-president Al Gore, New York governor Andrew Cuomo last year signed what he called “the most aggressive climate law in the United States of America”....
...Churchill is not honoured because of his derogatory view of Indians and other colonial peoples but in spite of them. Rhodes was a rapacious colonialist and should be removed....
...Boucheron’s book, smoothly translated by Willard Wood, reminds us that Machiavelli is no advocate of unbridled state violence. Far from it, because this would lose a ruler the support of his subjects....
...Coinciding with the European discovery of the Americas, the war between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires traversed the globe....
...In doing so, it joins numerous other plaintiffs, including Indian tribes and conservation organisations....
...He died on 25 October, aged 86, after suffering from vascular dementia. Putting Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers on to the screen was natural for Mollo....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...In the near term, the commission’s finding that the world’s most valuable company benefitted from 25 years of illegal state aid from Ireland comes just a week before the launch of its latest iPhone....
...Still, the selection process is tight: only around 25 films can be chosen for funding out of the 400 applications the fund receives each year....
...The American wine critic Robert M Parker Jr, granddaddy of US wine commentary, has presumably been watching this phenomenon from his base in the woods of Maryland for some time....
...America’s desert city is ideal only for those who prefer images to real life....
...At another of its facilities in the Indian state of Rajasthan, however, groundwater is disappearing so fast it has become “quite a significant risk to the brewery”, says Andy Wales, the company’s head of...
...‘The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing’ is published by Atlantic Books (£25)...
...Rubin owns more paintings by Douglas Peréz (25 of them) than by any other artist, in part because Peréz’s surrealistic canvases poke fun at the revolution and the US embargo....
...I didn’t have any family living in the United States....
...Indian experience over the past two decades demonstrates this conclusively....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Still, she says 125,000 jobs per month is “better than nothing but we need more to pull us out of the woods”. On the ground in the swing states, it is unclear whether this will be sufficient....
...According to the affidavit, the ebony included in the shipment was illegal under a US law that bars the transport or sale of endangered woods and plants....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...The restaurant is comfortable, with white tablecloths, wood panels and banquettes. It feels like a reliable lunch spot rather than an exceptional venue....
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