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...He is author, most recently, of “Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda”....
...She spent decades building up her foreign policy credentials in academia and was the dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs when she was tapped for the State...
...His personal life was also marked by change: like the politician and writer Woodrow Wyatt, whom he knew from Oxford days, he married four times....
...In 1996, he met Mr Davis, then finance director of South African miner Gencor Ltd....
...Mr Hannam started off as an engineer at Taylor Woodrow before studying for an MBA and switching to banking....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...That said, Mr Smith was dealt a bad hand by his predecessor Sir Crispin Davis, who helped rack up $8.4bn of debt through acquisitions such as Choicepoint, a provider of services to the insurance industry...
...Mr Smith, like his predecessor Sir Crispin Davis, was regarded an untried and untested outsider before his appointment....
...Early last year the publisher hired Ian Smith to succeed Sir Crispin Davis as chief executive, but Mr Smith, former head of Taylor Woodrow, resigned eight months into the job....
...The prospects facing Ian Smith, the former Taylor Woodrow chief who will take the reins next month, are decidedly less rosy....
...When former chief Sir Crispin Davis stepped down in March after a decade in which he had turned a publisher of learned scientific and legal journals into one of the more digitally-savvy database businesses...
...He was replaced by Mr Smith, who had been chief executive of Taylor Woodrow, the construction group....
...The publisher, which has interests ranging from information provider Lexis Nexis to film magazine Variety, said Ian Smith, the former head of Taylor Woodrow, would take over from Sir Crispin Davis next year...
...His only role as chief executive of a FTSE company was a six-month stint heading Taylor Woodrow, the housebuilder, which he left following its merger with George Wimpey in mid-2007....
...Ian Smith, former head of Taylor Woodrow, is taking over from Sir Crispin next year....
...“You can’t help feeling sorry for Crispin Davis,” the Daily Mirror concluded....
...Mr Smith will formally replace Sir Crispin Davis, respected chief executive of the media group, next March....
...When Mick Davis of Xstrata said two weeks ago that he was ready to do more deals, he clearly meant it....
...Buy-out rumours were also swirling around Davis Services Group, 2 per cent stronger at 609p. Elsewhere, the recent strong run of Southern Cross Healthcare continued....
...The US broker cut its rating on Barratt Holdings, down 1.4 per cent to 935p, from ‘buy’ to ‘hold’ and moved Taylor Woodrow, 0.1 per cent softer at 354p, from ‘hold’ to ‘buy’....
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