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...Additional reporting by Samer Al-Atrush and James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
...Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Sinfonia of London The Sinfonia of London reaches new heights....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...Given how volatile the data was during Covid-19, Williams et al suspended their estimates until May....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...Their gorgeous, luminous singing hit a peak with Morley’s sensuous “Et incarnatus est”....
...The perception of higher masculinity as indicated by a high [dominance] score violates the female stereotype, which Oh et al. [2019, 2020] suggest dominant-looking female analysts are perceived as less likable...
...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...
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...Isn’t it high time the regulators increased oversight on Blackstone and Apollo, et al, as this relatively new and powerful group of financial titans continue their march to the top of the heap on Wall Street...
...Saudi Arabia is far from hanging up its jersey Yasir al-Rumayyan has had a busy few seasons....
...“Some people are expecting pots,” says Wood, but she highlights this year’s contribution by deaf artist Nina Thomas. “She’s responding to the experience of former deaf workers in the ceramics industry....
...virtually guarantees Britain will have small, mediocre and expensive housing for the foreseeable future Josh Spero, associate arts editor I love an (alleged) scam story, but one caught up with Tennessee Williams...
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...William Mansfield, Credit Suisse’s head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is departing for a new role at Deutsche Bank....
...Terry-Thomas, as quoted in Kingsley Amis, Memoirs (1991) As far as the authors of Britannia Unchained are concerned, it appears that this is not so much an amusing anecdote as a prescription for what ails...
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...The shift is a sign of the UK’s waning equity market, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
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