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...France’s auditing body, the Cour des Comptes, has described the state of the country’s public finances as “worrying”....
...Moctezuma, “the most famous man in an entire world”, is troubled by portents of disaster but firmly committed to his daily nap — and addicted to magic mushrooms and hallucinogenic cacti....
...Cheap imitations: Migration crackdowns to copy the far right won’t help Europe’s moderates, writes Catherine De Vries....
...Iacobescu, 78, has come a long way since his childhood in communist Romania in the decades after the second world war, and has the joie de vivre of someone for whom luxury has been hard earned....
...“We had become addicted to tech, cyber, big data and the rest of it,” Milstein said....
...“They’re addicted to these things.”...
...After nearly two decades at the helm of the US’s biggest bank by assets, Jamie Dimon is (as FT dep ed Patrick Jenkins wrote this week) the de facto King of Wall Street....
...The ill-matched pair, mutually addicted to their own psychodramas, burnt through love, rage and hate into “piranha shoals of recrimination”....
...“We are addicted to plastic because it’s convenient. I don’t want a world that is convenient. I want one that is very complex. Convenient is for Americans. For other people. It’s a word I hate.”...
...Filippo Aloisi de LarderelRome, Italy...
...And I’m a little bit addicted to Awake & Lift Eye Patches by German brand MBR. I take good care of my skin, and use a toner and facial moisturiser....
...I’m addicted to psychological thrillers, and this one, which begins with the opening of a restored nature trail in a leafy London suburb, had me gripped....
...I know of people who, from never having eaten an artichoke before, become addicted to them after visiting Rome....
...Snyder has been chided as a perma-pessimist; a leading figure in a western liberal intellectual elite so browbeaten in recent years, the critique runs, that it is now hopelessly addicted to catastrophising...
...Their celebrity overwhelmed them, they became addicted to drugs, Presley and Monroe died young. Oates has enjoyed a very different kind of life....
...But he had strong and very vocal views about the local Miami Art Museum, which moved to a new $131mn Herzog and de Meuron building in 2013....
...Some of its addicted users joke that Musk would be doing them a favor if he would just let the company go bust. But whatever your feelings about Twitter, it’s hard to argue against its impact....
...No Tencent games were on the list but one called Jinji de Tuzi from Baidu, the Chinese search giant, was included....
...There is a fin de siècle feel about Britain’s politics. Prince Charles’s standing in for the Queen at the state opening of parliament was a sad symbol of a slow-motion abdication....
...But somehow I was completely addicted. I went twice a day, and it was heaven. My favourite app is Insight Timer. It’s the only one I don’t feel is a complete waste of time....
...“I thought about trying to become a writer or a musician, but then I started painting and I got addicted. From then I just painted, painted, painted.”...
...Richie Piper also suggests a bigger de Havilland Beaver floatplane. “Fantastic classics, originating from the second world war....
...Last year, Vuitton carried off two of the prizes at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (where I serve as president of the jury)....
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...In Paris, anywhere around Rue de Lille, Rue de Beaune and Quai Voltaire, you have lots of dealers with beautiful pieces....
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