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...Three new titles on the place of the rich in society show that the question has always been controversial, but is especially so today amid rapid increases in the fortunes of the super-rich and accelerating...
...Bolton is another of the former industrial towns with a grand 150-year-old town hall looming over its shopping streets, the legacy of a different age....
...While in New York Castelli paid a visit to the New York Public Library and came upon the book Improving Songs for Anxious Children – which cautions against immoral behaviour....
...In the library room, Sir William would discuss Egyptian mythology with Dracula author Bram Stoker. At the top of the four-storey building is Wilde’s pink-walled bedroom, recently opened to the public....
...“Cambridge has been one of very few areas of the UK which has been showing rapid growth over the past 10 years,” she says....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...In 2009, everybody was predicting a rapid bounce back in rates, a rapid economic recovery, quite reminiscent to what a lot of the media was saying during Covid crisis....
...It was in Kew Gardens, designed by William Chambers in 1762.”...
...Rapid growth has encompassed the roll-out of repeat concepts in St Tropez and Courchevel....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...But within a decade, Reynolds pushed towards more elaborate, theatrical, historicising compositions — what was known as his “Grand Manner”....
...Two years of obsessive research generated a library of 18,000 documents, many of which Kubrick had pored over, and a picture cache of 15,000 items....
...The museum None of the other three Grand Slam tournaments has the history of Wimbledon, and none has a museum like this....
...Born in Albania, Mira now lives at the white-hot epicentre of artificial intelligence’s rapid evolution....
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...He comes in and sets up in the Warner studio lot, which no public company CEO had ever occupied, and starts sitting in on creative meetings, which raised a lot of eyebrows.”...
...Most people who take public companies private are only too eager to retreat from the public eye. For Musk, the opposite has applied, writes Richard Waters....
...Its ground floor – huge spaces with period wood panelling, ornate ceilings and 10ft-tall French doors and bay windows – contain both members-only zones and public rooms for hotel guests: a library, a bar...
...Sir Pascal Soriot, chief executive of drugmaker AstraZeneca, is made a knight for his services to UK life sciences and his company’s rapid development of a vaccine....
...To enter requires an approving nod from the bouncer, whereby you ascend a grand staircase to the palazzo....
...The other was a series of image-generation models that are improving at a rapid rate....
...For the right, he’s turned out to be a grand slam....
...Now, in 2021, four teenage Uzbeks led by Abdusattorov performed well in the Fide Grand Swiss in Riga....
...Delhi and Kolkata were reader-friendly cities, with decent bookshops and historical archives, but public libraries were — and are — still scarce....
...Lo launching Spacs; and I think Serena Williams backed one....
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