"There were strong stories out on a bid in the insurance sector-- the fact that no news has come out has taken some steam off it, " said John Hatherly, research director at M & AMP; G Group Plc, which manages about 10 billion pounds in equities worldwide.
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Recipes, like birds, ignore political boundaries . . . The faint outline of the Tsarist-Soviet imperium still glimmers in the collective steam off bowls of beetroot and cabbage in meat stock, and the soft sound of dollops of sour cream slipping into soup, from the Black Sea to the Sea of Japan and, in emigration, from Brooklyn to Berlin.
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"I don't think it's enough to just tell an interesting story and hope that the themes will come off it like steam off a bog and that critics will be there handily telling you what they are, " he said, serving a lunch he said he had quickly rustled up : a green salad colorfully dotted with red peppers and delicate quails'eggs; a bowl of room-temperature boiled new potatoes prepared with mint and balsamic vinegar; and the symmetrically organized salmon, almost too neat to eat.
