Hints and tips:
...There may be stars on America’s horizon still....
...The 17-storey limestone building includes views of Central Park and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir....
...Mr Schrems, who had already won some prominence with a one-man pressure group called Europe v Facebook that he started in 2011, took up the Safe Harbour cause after deciding that official responses to Snowden...
...If you stand in Ridge Vineyards’ historic Monte Bello vineyard — famous for its sterling performance in both the 1976 and, especially, the 2006 iterations of the Judgment of Paris France v California taste-off...
...Gaston-Louis Vuitton, the grandson of Louis Vuitton, chaired the 1925 Exposition. It was the graphic V in his monogram design of that period that became the basis for the latest Acte V collection....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...The chief executive of WH Smith, which has a market capitalisation of £1.2bn, thus has to spend a chunk of each earnings call dealing with questions from journalists asking about the state of ragged carpets...
...Encouraged by the breadth of wines espoused by writers such as Eric Asimov of The New York Times, America’s increasingly powerful sommeliers really do seem to be going further and further off-piste when...
...Reaching Irwin, we clamber down the Tucker’s metal steps and into the Movie Cabin, our base for the day (so called because it was used as the main set for the 1979 film Mountain Family Robinson)....
...So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends – and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition....
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...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...
...It offers a rare chance to see a range of top-flight de Koonings outside the United States, and to trace two separate relationships: between European and American modernism, and between autobiography and...
...If this can happen in the United States, what on earth is going to happen to us? And so you had a complete collapse of confidence, and world trade fell faster than even in the 1930s....
...Services Authority, and Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank, writes the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...The crews in this weekend’s Boat Race may suffer nerves, then exhilaration or depression, but almost certainly no more so than the participants in another Oxford v Cambridge needle match: the 58th Varsity...
...My colleague Steven Spurrier was spurned by the French wine establishment for years after he organised the famous California v France tasting in Paris in 1976....
...South America has become an invaluable source of great-value wine. But a wine lover’s view of the continent is probably completely skewed by which side of the Atlantic he or she lives on....
...The situation is calmed by the arrival of Barack the Great, newly elected emperor. His counsellors, Bernanke and Geithner, are at the head of a long train bearing all the treasures of the Americas....
...Inspired by the starring performance of some Ontario Chardonnay slipped into a top California v France Chardonnay tasting in Montreal last year, he decided to show off a selection of Ontario’s best Chardonnays...
...www.jancisrobinson.com More columns at www.ft.com/robinson ………………………………………….....
...- Kohn on V-shapes, housing and a whole lot more. - A complete list of everything that’s caused by global warming. - Further, further reading....
...Britvic also benefited from its Robinsons sponsorship of Wimbledon....
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
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