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...“A lot of people have raised their hands and said we’d like a part of this business, but nobody has put a flag in the ground and said we’re going to become the next SVB,” Spreng said....
...Never in my life did I think I’d be so lucky as to marry my best friend. And his fiancée....
...Gideon Rachman Indeed, if Zelenskyy hadn’t gone back to Kyiv, if he’d done an Ashraf Ghani and fled . . . Michael Fullilove Exactly. Gideon Rachman Things would have been very different....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled his country yesterday as the Taliban poured into Kabul....
...Ashraf Ghani, the president, has addressed an emergency meeting of parliament calling for national unity at a moment of “critical danger”....
...The momentum behind M&A is building....
...“I’d say it’s one of the less comfortable parts of my job. I’m comfortable with the public interest in me as a CEO. I’m uncomfortable with the public interest in myself and my family or where I live.”...
...“I wish they’d return more cash to shareholders and waste less.” Too much liquidity? The cash build-up has come despite a surge in capital spending....
...Addi Bin Youssef, a cameleer, was the youngest of the team at 23 and the son of a nomad....
...I’d love to learn to cook the Michelin way and I’ll do it one day. Nine-month course, £34,633; cordonbleu.edu...
...I’m sure I would have reached for the panic button if I’d been served their “Aerofood” dish, which required guests to feed themselves bits of kumquat with one hand and stroke sandpaper with the other, while...
...Trad showed his M table made of green, black and white marble in an exhibition presented by Danish digital design store Adorno during Beirut Design Week last June....
...As I’m a qanun novice, Youssef offers a beginner’s guide. Resting the qanun on her lap, she puts silver rings on her index fingers then slides beneath each a turtle shell plectrum....
...The Atlas Lions often played “as if they’d eaten hay” (a pejorative Berber expression). After 1998, they failed to qualify for the next four World Cups....
...In truth, both our triumphs have little to do with us and a lot to do with our surfing instructor, Youssef Amzil....
...It would be easier in Berlin — but I’d miss the inspiration.”...
...I’m only 40 years old, but I have grey hair from the stress of looking after my eight children.”...
...That verse beautifully articulated feelings I’d felt....
...“Let’s say I’m a Brit, I’ve lived half my life with Pakistani neighbours and if there are investment possibilities there I’m going to develop an interest – that’s how it works.”...
...M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...He responded: “Mom, I’m not depressed. I’m anxious.” He said she needn’t come, she recalled. Several times, he told his parents that he felt he was under threat because of his work with the Chinese....
...But I’m not holding my breath....
...Almost wherever you look, there is zellij, the minutely-patterned geometric mosaic tiling that defines Marrakech’s most important sites, such as the exquisite 16th-century Ben Youssef Medersa – imagine the...
...US officials have discussed the chief executive post with one of Mr Karzai’s main challengers, the technocratic former finance minister Ashraf Ghani, though they have not endorsed him for the job....
...Hajjali Youssef, Morocco JM: I’m afraid I can’t give investment advice in this blog but I would suggest that property markets will take a considerable period of time to re-adjust after many years of stellar...
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