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Apr 28th 2022To watch a film by Robert Eggers is to be transported to a bygone era. His fastidious attention...
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THE WORDS “Las Vegas” conjure up, in many minds, images of free-spending, tacky tourism. No surprise then that the local...
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Apr 30th 2022Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties. By David de Jong. Mariner Books; 400 pages; $28.99....
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Apr 30th 2022Operation Car Wash. By Jorge Pontes and Márcio Anselmo. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Bloomsbury; 208 pages; $27 and...
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IT IS EASY to forget that the world’s second-biggest economy is still an emerging market. China’s global clout, its technological...
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WITH ALMOST 4,000 seats, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York is the largest indoor venue of its kind in...
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AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION promises the “free exercise” of religion; it also prohibits religious “establishment”. Recently the Supreme Court has been strengthening...
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IT WAS A criminal’s paradise. In June 2020 a firm in Milan secured a €60,000 ($63,300) government loan to cope...
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Apr 30th 2022JULIA CHILD died almost 18 years ago, at the enviable age of 91, having done more to enrich...
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RESTORING THE supremacy of America’s First Amendment on Twitter seems priority number one for Elon Musk. Inconveniently, his acquisition of...