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...Bernadette Speers, a carer, said an eighty-year-old neighbour was restricting herself to one cup of tea a day because she didn’t want to switch the kettle on. “I blame the government....
...Private equity firm HarbourVest Partners has hired William Royer as chief compliance officer. Royer previously held the same role at Vanguard Global Advisors....
...The Bauhauslers passionately followed values of Modernism that went back to the 1800s: from William Morris and John Ruskin, the importance of craft; from reformers the promise of a utopian society; from...
...BP: There again, you had Speer, he was Hitler’s great architect. He knew what he was doing. His buildings were classically authentic. It wasn’t kitsch....
...They included Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Sonnenfeldt had been one of the first US soldiers into Dachau concentration camp on the day of its liberation....
...“It was Walt Disney meets Walter Speer. It was a way to say, ‘We are Muslim and we have arrived,’” he says....
...Not so in America, where one might find a “Queen Anne highboy, circa 1740”, or even a “Transitional William and Mary/Queen Anne daybed, circa 1750”....
...He ordered architect Albert Speer to create monumental Nazi structures that would look as good thousands of years after they were destroyed; as good as Roman ruins did....
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