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...Rhode and Strumpf conclude that “many current concerns about the appropriateness of prediction markets are not well founded in the historical record”....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is some green rocks from the Greek village of Lindos, on Rhodes....
...On display in a vitrine is a small red tin that once contained chocolate Queen Victoria sent to the Boer war troops as a new year gift in 1900....
...Burnt Island Kate Rhodes, Simon & Schuster, RRP£8.99 Kate Rhodes writes beautifully crafted psychological thrillers....
...Nicholas Coleridge, the former media executive who chairs the board of the Victoria and Albert Museum, says he is “unashamedly grateful” for the £2bn pandemic rescue package for the arts and comfortable...
...In the US, for instance, Confederate monuments in the South have recently sparked controversy over their historical associations, while in Britain, disputes over figures such as Cecil Rhodes have led to...
...The school always has a “Wemyss Woman” acting as guardian, alongside a sewing mistress; after Dora, the guardianship passed to Lady Victoria Wemyss — Molly’s great-grandmother, and Fiona’s husband’s grandmother...
...But he also earned his stripes in design, attending a course at Stockholm’s Forsberg design academy until spring 2006, followed by the Rhode Island School of Design in the US....
...dark interior of the Bulawayo Club, once the man-cave of the early Rhodesian settlers but now a hotel and restaurant, drinking G&Ts, listening to Hubbard’s breathless description of the funeral of Cecil Rhodes...
...“I am the first person in my family to go to college,” says Victoria Hernandez, a 17-year-old who is simultaneously studying to become a nurse and finishing high school....
...The FT also revealed the Sacklers own a second opioid drugmaker called Rhodes Pharma, which churns out millions of addictive painkiller pills every year....
...In the city that produced the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, it will remain under scrutiny....
...‘Do Ho Suh: Passage/s’ is at the Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, February 1-March 18; victoria-miro.com Photographs: Stefan Ruiz; Do Ho Suh; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,...
...‘Semper Femina’ is out on March 10 (Rough Trade) Photographs: Chris Rhodes/Webber Represents; Barney Britton/Redferns/Getty Images; Brian Rasic/Getty Images...
...Rhodes was not the only local with an appetite for enterprising but unlawful development....
...Zandra Rhodes was designing on the same line. We go back years. One Christmas, many moons ago, we went away to Italy. We sort of fell out after that trip....
...Carpets group Victoria is issuing shares to retailers to incentivise them, though, if I was a retailer I’d prefer a discount....
...Yet on a visit to Rhode Island last Friday, Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, said that even six years after the recession ended the US labour market has yet to fully recover and that the outlook was only for...
...The price could range from about $50,000 to more than $2m, says Leonard Baum, a Rhode Island architect who specialises in moving historically significant homes....
...A favourite anecdote of Mike Rees relates to a time he travelled by train across the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi river on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia....
...Perhaps the closest heir to the Birtwell/Rhodes crown is Katrantzou....
...A poll of Australia’s 54 swing seats, released earlier this week, showed Labor would lose 10 seats across western Sydney and New South Wales and another three in Victoria....
...‘Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950’ is at the Victoria and Albert museum until January 6 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...And the co-founder of Singapore and founder of London Zoo, as Victoria Glendinning’s fine new biography Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity makes clear, was an attractive and charismatic figure who achieved...
...The imperialist Cecil Rhodes once visited Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who asked what he could do to make himself more popular in Britain. Rhodes said: “You might try doing nothing”....
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