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...In the south of France, Julia Blackburn, whose The Emperor’s Last Island is one of the few books on Napoleon that reads like prose poetry, inspected what a museum there proudly claims are his pickled testicles...
...However, at least two Australian law firms, Slater & Gordon and Maurice Blackburn, have said they are investigating potential class action claims against the telecoms company....
...“A lot of artists think the biography of a human is in the face, but I like to tell the story with the whole figure,” Blackburn says....
...“I used to see pictures of [British radio DJs] Tony Blackburn or Noel Edmonds in their studio and thought it was the height of glamour....
...Bank of America has promoted Anthony Knox to co-head of investment banking for South Africa alongside Justin Bothner....
...A former bolthole of the late Tory PM Anthony Eden, it’s a place where Brudnizki can, he says, live out his own “Arcadian fantasy of English country life”....
...M&A and international investing lead Anthony Lin will steer the organisation until a permanent successor is found. Dropbox chief financial officer Ajay Vashee is stepping down in September....
...Steven Mnuchin Congressman Devin Nunes Anthony Scaramucci Peter Thiel Donald Trump Jr....
...Blackburn’s venture is more ambitious....
...That’s just a short stroll from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, which opened in 2010 to house the Mancunian writer’s archive alongside a performance venue....
...As Anthony Gray, football trader at Sporting Index, points out, English football’s biggest prize often disappoints in this respect....
...It could be half a lifetime before they get to Blackburn again. The papers estimated the crowd at up to 3,000....
...Anthony Reilly, former director, British Council in Iraq. Stuart Rutherford, microfinance adviser. Piers Sellers, astronaut....
...The third round, is, as Sporting Index football trader Anthony Gray points out, “32 matches, including four live on television”....
...The Blackburn-based company is expected to be valued at £500m ($783m), or 15 times last year’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation....
...Anthony Steen, the Tory grandee, became the latest MP to announce in the wake of the revelations of claims that he would not stand at the next election....
...anthony.haden-guest@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/hadenguest...
...The previous generation of UK owners of leading teams – including steel entrepreneur Jack Walker at Blackburn and Midlands businessman Doug Ellis at Aston Villa – were not averse to involving themselves...
...Anthony Grayling is professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. For details of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award go to www.ft.com/bookaward...
...In Blackburn Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, is facing a challenge from a phalanx of anti-war candidates, but should be safe with a majority of 9,249....
...Audience figures, from earlier in the week, meanwhile, indicate that the first Tory broadcast drew more viewers than Anthony Minghella’s Blair-Brown piece....
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