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...at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...Once blessed with that assurance, he’s off — and there’s a terrifying gleam to him as he becomes ruthless and remote. His impassive execution of his old friend Bardolph is chilling....
...It was especially reckless in 2008 for President George W Bush to open the door to Ukraine’s (and Georgia’s) Nato membership....
...As Powell recalled in his memoirs, countries involved in the Gulf were sovereign and wanted assurances as to how their forces would be used....
...Tony Blair never shook off the “poodle” charge after supporting George W Bush in the Iraq war. The line between special and servile is a thin one....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...A V-shaped recovery in kneecaps isn’t in the price, they say....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...This is not Harriet Miers, the under-qualified candidate proposed by President George W Bush in 2005, only to withdraw amid general acrimony....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...“The 2016 election laid out graphically what is in essence the loss of Christian America,” Flynt says, delivering his verdict with a calm assurance that reminded me of Lee’s hero, Atticus Finch, as played...
...Hubbard was chairman of George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and is now dean of Columbia Business School. Kane is chief economist at the Hudson Institute....
...For wild variety of costume, for ethnic complexity, for cheerful exhibitionism, for the uninhibited antics of children and soigné continental assurance, there is nowhere better than Avignon....
...As to what really caused the fall of Rome, we love the view presented by W.V. Harris at Columbia University....
...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...
...W.V Harris of Columbia University is probably best known for having made and substantiated the argument. And in my opinion, it’s certainly a very compelling one....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Ballard in his Shanghai-based Empire of the Sun....
...recovery rather than entering a bumpy or W-shaped rebound....
...A key moment will come on April 24, the official day of remembrance, which in previous years has seen former presidents Bill Clinton and George W....
...“There are many people who truly believe the economy will face another big slide and the recovery will look more like a W.”...
...The improving political atmosphere comes as once-isolated Syria holds indirect peace talks with Israel and amid a growing western belief that, as George W....
...K.V. Kamath has it in spades....
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