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...But democracy has been on a declining trend globally since 2012, according to research from the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem Institute....
...These are oblique yet hackle-raising pictures — bullet holes in a muralled wall; a stained, crumpled gamcha (working man’s cloth) used as a blindfold before torture and death....
...London is simultaneously home to a network of piece workers in the garment industry and to the Francis Crick institute, with 1,250 scientists, one of Europe’s largest biomedical research centres....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...His reputation has only grown in the years following his death, with major exhibitions staged at the Hayward Gallery in London (2004), Art Institute of Chicago (2012), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2013) and...
...It is not the quake that kills but the house itself; collapsing structures, falling floors, crumbling walls....
...The option of letting the steel industry go to the wall is not an option,” he added....
...Karl Rove, former president George W Bush’s senior adviser, called on Republicans to “reject nuts” in a Wall Street Journal column on Thursday and “focus on improving the lives of ordinary Americans, rather...
...Dmitriev had been an invited speaker that spring at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, rubbing elbows with various Wall Street billionaires who could be courted as partners to the RDIF...
...And they declined to talk to me, as did Tudor Dixon campaign. She’s the Republican candidate for governor in the state....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...Need to know: business JPMorgan has reported a big jump in profits thanks to a boom in dealmaking and the release of $2bn in reserves as Wall Street earnings season got under way....
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...Most advance coverage of the hearings has already put Mr Bezos front and centre (both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have pieces on him.)...
...Dixon is talking about his Mass table, a solid slab of brass supported by two “V” legs....
...Wall Street doesn’t seem so convinced....
...Meanwhile, a survey by Germany’s highly regarded Ifo Institute showed sentiment among business leaders in Europe’s biggest economy improved to its highest level since February....
...They’ll get a very different reading there than from Wall Street. rana.foroohar@ft.com Follow Rana Foroohar with myFT and on Twitter...
...As our economists have explained, on a sequential quarter-on-quarter annualised basis their US forecast shows -34% in Q2, +19% in Q3 and +12% in Q4, which looks rather V-shaped....
...Essential comment before you go Gillian Tett Why work from Wall Street when you can WFH?...
...“We have seen a V-shaped recovery in equity markets, but we are far from that in the real economy,” she said, as US stocks closed out their best quarter since 1998....
...Sam takes a running jump, and strikes out in a stiff front crawl, angled into the current so that he cuts across to the ladder on the opposite wall. He grabs a rung, and hauls himself to safety....
...focused on coffins and mummy boards in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities), Leiden; the 2017 project to restore “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (c1570) by Titian at the Detroit Institute...
...For Valentino Dixon, who served 27 years for a murder he didn’t commit, it became a tool of justice....
...“Except,” says Chuchalina, gesturing towards one end of the huge central hall, “unlike the Kremlin, there are no walls. Anyone will be able to come in.”...
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