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...Around this time, Nicholas got close to Brian Coogan, who served as a Rhode Island state representative from 2000 to 2005....
...Via a romantic and business relationship with Peter Brown — Beatles manager Brian Epstein’s second-in-command — and his partnership with master cutter Edward Sexton, Nutter got the backing to launch Nutters...
...“You have Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, Brian Moynihan; throw in the head of Vanguard and Larry Fink, and you essentially have the American financial system concentrated at a very small table of individuals...
...With a budget of C$3.4m (£2.1m), they are topping the League 1 table in their debut season in England....
...“A lot of these guys make 100, 150, 200 grand a year,” says an executive at a camp housing company....
...brian.groom@ft.com Twitter: @GroomB...
...Charles Okeahalam All must share in sheltering fugitives from war and poverty / From Mr Brian Reed...
...Democrats’ best hope lies in Brian Schweitzer, a former governor who is known to have poor relations with Mr Baucus and said he would decide after May 2 whether to run....
...Later the same day, I had lunch with Rob Burdett and Gary Potter of Thames River, a division of F&C that specialises in multi-asset funds....
...“A lot of the Hispanics come from Mexico where the political process is corrupt and not very enfranchising,” says Brian Conklin, one of the Obama campaign’s staffers in Arizona....
...“The feedback we’re getting is it’s like being in a slave camp,” said Brian Garner, the dapper chairman of the Lea Hall Miners Welfare Centre and Social Club, still a popular drinking spot....
...Did John Major invite George Bush Sr to ride in a minibus to the Oval to watch his beloved Surrey take on Leicester?)...
...Brzezinski Sr must have done something very right, or very wrong, to get posted to Canada after that. “In those days, the British still referred to it as BNA,” Brzezinski says. “British North America.”...
...So yes, “Plan A” should continue to evolve into a Plan “C” for capital investment growth. Keith Wade, Schroders: “Plan A”? The Chancellor is on ‘plan C’!...
...It seems most shareholders agree, having voted last week to support Mr Bramson’s bid to replace chairman Nick MacAndrew and director Brian Larcombe....
...Pakistan handed the Uighurs over to US forces in 2002 after they fled a camp in Afghanistan following the US invasion of that country....
...The Uighurs were captured in 2002 after they fled a camp in Afghanistan following the US invasion....
...He is not afraid to seem as camp as a drag queen cutting up rough at a gay pride march....
...Mr Travers adds: “We cannot assume that Poles in London would vote naturally for Ken – they are Catholic and conservative with a small “c”. We just don’t know much about this.”...
...Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement By Brian Doherty Public Affairs $35, 768 pages Brian Doherty’s sympathetic, well-informed and endlessly entertaining...
...Indeed, the leaders of the opposition camp, Schröder and Chirac are either out or on their way out....
...Gold had been mined there since shortly after the first discovery in 1911, but production had ended when Dobson bought it for C$5m (£2.05m) in 1999....
...This time, the author, although sent to a labour camp, outlived the regime....
...The Glazer camp will be aware soon enough of the chorus: “You don’t know what you’re doing!”...
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