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A group known as The Patriotic Millionaires, including figures such as Abigail Disney, say the wealthy have too much influence and contribute too little Morris Pearl knows the power that money can buy. As the former managing director of BlackRock, one of the largest investment firms in the world, he earned millions of dollars, travelled

Bleak is the word. If EM Cioran, the great Romanian philosopher of the bleak, had been a novelist, Animalia is the kind of novel he would have produced. Published by the courageous Fitzcarraldo, this wont make it on to a list of beach reads. But it is likely to be hailed as a modern classic.

When Sophia Loren turned 72 three years ago, she celebrated by posing semi-naked for a Pirelli calendar alongside a handful of women less than half her age. Wearing a silk neglige, she draped herself languorously under a bedsheet with her head tilted sensually upwards in a suggestion of ecstatic abandon. A Vatican aide was moved

Writer says Dutch painter was influenced by Japanese print he is known to have admired One of the great masterpieces of 19th-century western art was loosely inspired by one of the greats of 19th-century Japanese art, it has been argued.

When I sat down last year to list my icons for a chapter in my book about beauty, Lauren Bacall was the first to make the list. She was, until the very end, one of the most extraordinary beauties I have ever seen. Hers was a strong face. Proudly Jewish (she rubbished rumours of a