Hints and tips:
...’s most successful investment bankers over the past two decades, Byron Trott and Gregg Lemkau, are joining forces to build a behemoth $50bn investment and advisory firm to cater to the super-rich....
...News round-up Goldman Sachs weighs fresh job cuts as dealmaking drought persists (FT) Temasek cuts pay of employees behind failed $275mn bet on FTX (FT) Philip Morris on path to becoming an ESG stock,...
...the lead and Morris directing....
...The late Jan Morris called it Venice’s “queer wet countryside”....
...As journalist Tatiana Walk-Morris noted this summer, the companies trying to entice back consumers are not public health experts....
...KPMG has been appointed as administrator to Intu Properties and burger chain Byron in recent weeks....
...Lord Byron dubbed Layla and Majnun “the Romeo and Juliet of the East” but this underplays the story’s power....
...Fiona MacCarthy, biographer of Eric Gill, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Lord Byron, turns her attention to Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus (Faber, March), 100 years after the founding...
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...(William Morris had done something similar with Homer, converting The Odyssey into a weird ballad-speak.)...
...I ask about the sequel, where the pair retrace Shelley and Byron’s travels in Italy....
...The streams cross and re-cross: Rooster recounts a tale of meeting a giant by the A14, and barman Wesley sheepishly performs a Morris dance in order to secure a wrap of wizz....
...Jan Morris Opera in Llandudno, Wales A particular delight to me in 2010 was going to the opera on the Promenade at Llandudno....
...The play revolves around Rooster Byron, a dubious outlaw, who camps in considerable disarray on the edge of a Wiltshire village....
...In the village the bunting is out, the floats gather for the fete and the air jingles faintly with morris dancers’ bells. But all is not well....
...Like Chrysler, Britain’s William Morris defied the slump with his stubby but popular Morris Eight (Morris’s modern heir, MG Rover, sadly went under in 2005)....
...A Quiet Adjustment By Benjamin Markovits Faber £12.99, 240 pages Last year Texan-in-London Markovits brought out Imposture, the first in a trilogy about Byron....
...He considers him a marvellous writer and is a fan of Jan Morris, too. He abhors being called a travel writer, regarding it as a lesser category, “rather like being called a sports writer”....
...“Much of the demand comes from managers at big companies, such as Nestlé, Tetrapak or Philip Morris, who come here for training, are struck by the beauty of the area and want to return and own a place....
...After watching England compete well in the forwards but fail to capitalise on the possession this gave their backs in a 23-19 defeat to New Zealand two weeks ago, many pundits - like Stuart Barnes and Dewi Morris...
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