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GLOBAL WEALTH, Business and Culture: Sharp and to the Point<br />
Issue 30<br />
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CLIFFHANGER<br />
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resident Obama is now feeling his way into his second that Obama had `no mandate to raise tax rates'.<br />
term, refreshing his cabinet as some members resign Yes, the tone is decidedly waspish in Washington, but these<br />
because of complex sex scandals (we salute you, General wasps are losing their sting in the New America, where<br />
Petraeus) and others because of 2016 ambitions (that's you, typical Republican voters – `angry white men' (as a Republican<br />
Hillary). He survived — indeed popularly profited — from senator put it) – are dying out. Obama thumped Romney<br />
one superstorm already, but there is another on the way, and among ethnic minorities (no longer so minor) and the<br />
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=33"> PERSONAL EXPRESSION MEETS MUSICAL PERFECTION PIAN</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=34"> THE DISCRIMINATOR THE NAME’S... HEINEKEN? Aless</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=35"> when all we hear about are major computer glitche</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=39"> IMAGE RIGHTS The new blaCk Is it possible to whi</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=70"> THE FRONT PAIGE Whether a star of Warhol's Manhat</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=71"> Above: Paige Powell at home in Portland, sitting </a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=72"> BEAN COUNTERS Hotel Chocolat's Peter Harris tell</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=73"> LONDON'S GLOBAL ART FAIR Over 100 galleries from</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 75" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=75"> THE DORCHESTER In 3pm Out Noon For all its mul</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 86" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=86"> BOOK REVIEWS EX LIBRIS DIAMOND STREET: The Hidde</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 89" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=89"> 13–19 March 2013 The 21st Annual British Antiqu</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 90" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=90"> FOOD LA VIE EN ROSBIF He looks French, he sound</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 91" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=91"> Illustration by Rebecca Buckland out of London —</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 92" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=92"> WINE AS WINE GOES BY You must remember this… Ma</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 94" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=94"> SUFFRAGE FOR YOUR ART Two recent exhibitions pro</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 95" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=95"> cism. Sexual Secrets, a work of 1979 which she pr</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 96" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=96"> AFAIRCHANCE Art13 will be an art fair with a dif</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 97" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=97"> Opposite: Memories of the Gaze (2009-12), a Seoul</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 98" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=98"> DESIGN drake’s Progress His namesake Sir Francis</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 99" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=99"> Opposite: Jamie Drake, no shrinking violet. Clock</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 100" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=100"> SHALL I CARVE? In an era sadly lacking in skil</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 101" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=101"> Opposite: Colin Mantripp (far left) with some of </a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 104" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=104"> STEINWAY TO HEAVEN Anthony Hade</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 105" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=105"> Left: The Sound of Harmony, a Chinese client's pi</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 106" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=106"> NORWEGIANS WOULD Since striking oil in 1969, Nor</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 108" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=108"> Previous page: photograph by Nic Lehoux, courtesy</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 110" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=110"> SHEER HORROR Clive Aslet visits the Dolomites,</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 111" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=111"> Above: The profile of Monte Lagazuoi was refashio</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 112" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=112"> Top right photograph by Randy Jay Braun; below by</a>
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<a title="Spear's 30 page 119" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=119"> Below: A London black cab from 1985-87 had two c</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 120" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=120"> during the day, then go to work. You missed the s</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 121" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=121"> In contrast to the gregarious cabbie stereotyp</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 122" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=122"> Photograph courtesy Graham Spero </a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 123" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=123"> D-Brilliant Cuts™ invented by master Polisher Hed</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 124" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=124"> PROPERTY HIP TO BE SQUARE Residential developmen</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 125" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=125"> Above: The old Port of London building at 10 Trin</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 126" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=126"> TILTING AT WINDMILLS With the upgrading of his h</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 127" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=127"> allows us to protect and celebrate England's hist</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 128" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=128"> COUNTRY WIRE A BEAUTY-FULL MIND On the centenary</a>
<a title="Spear's 30 page 129" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d8e6ce6b?page=129"> MID-ATLANTIC GIRL onWardS and S a r d W p u </a>
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