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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The holder of the oldest peerage title in the UK, and a renowned maker of goats’ cheese, Mar declared she did not want to be one of those people who “staggers around with a Zimmer frame and needs people...
...Josh Harris of Apollo Global Management and David Blitzer of Blackstone have held discussions with the Wilpon family, according to people briefed about the matter....
...The Golden State has long been a place where people go to reinvent themselves, where fantasies are created and sold....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...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...
...She quotes William Blake on a wild flower: “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour”. The flower trade delivers eternity to our doorstep....
...The clash of church and state at the heart of the story reverberates to this day....
...Now, with the help of those who could be called, in a benign sense, the usual suspects – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Julia Neuberger et al – Armstrong has launched her Charter for Compassion...
...During his childhood, he was thought to be the son of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. star Robert Vaughn, until a DNA test in the 1980s proved otherwise....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The assault, the second brazen attack in the bustling commercial city of Lahore in under a month, is a bleak reminder of the fragility of the Pakistani state....
...For a $55 fee, the operators of this small California company will help you get a loan by employing you as an “independent contractor”....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...He’s heard about the bump’n’grind dance routines, the simulated screwing in each and every position....
...Michael V....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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