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...The best car I’ve ever owned was a red ’60s E-type Jaguar. It was the most beautiful car in the world, and probably still is....
...To mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015, the artist Cornelia Parker used needlework for her giant version of it....
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...The opinion of just one critic, Robert Parker Jr, moves the market. And even wines with the deepest liquidity are not immune to random absurdities....
...CLASSICAL MUSIC A History of Opera: The Last 400 Years by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Abbate and Parker wear their academic background lightly, bringing to life the social as well...
...Tragically, it was dismembered by its owner, book collector Arthur Houghton, Jr, in the 1960s....
...Like most people, I don’t do that any more, and e-mail hasn’t replaced the habit....
...executive, in an e-mail to employees of a large investment bank....
...Listening to Obama speak, Schama hears Cicero mingled with Martin Luther King, Jr. He is, writes Schama, “the fruit of [King’s] planting; the pay-off of his sacrifice”....
...Ross Jr and Kenneth C. Griffin, contributed a few hundred thousand dollars more, why should we believe the committee was independent?...
...Beard, Jr. Lewis W. Bernard Richard A. Debs Joseph G. Fogg S. Parker Gilbert Robert G. Scott Frederick B. Whittemore John H. T. Wilson...
...Mr Bennett was hired by Thomas Dittmer, who had founded Refco with his stepfather, Ray E....
...Bawag’s long-time chief executive had been Walter Flottl, who stepped down in 1994 after it emerged that the bank had lent $2bn to Ross Capital, his son Wolfgang’s Bermuda-based hedge fund....
...Standing beside him was Thomas Cottone Jr, who became very interested in the array of medals on Edwards’ chest....
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