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...Born in China to Russian émigrés, the former Australian army captain worked at Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston before spinning out hedge fund CQS in 1999....
...Captain Arthur Phillips’ First Fleet is seen anchored in the harbour, the ships’ pennants unfurling in a stylised breeze. Encampments, garden plots and farmland dot the coast....
...But there was also Laura Wade’s mischievous adaptation of The Watsons (2018), Austen’s unfinished novel, in which the characters started to rebel against the author....
...Bennett’s painting riffs on Samuel Calvert’s 19th-century etching, “Captain Cook Taking Possession of the Australian Continent on Behalf of the British Crown, AD1770”....
...“California is just a year-long fire season,” says a captain in the state’s fire department....
...By that year, of course, Plummer had also been Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music....
...David Hinchliffe asserts (Letters, March 28) that rugby league’s Clive Sullivan was the first black captain of an international team in British sport....
...Brown, a former vice-captain of New Zealand’s football team, came up with the idea for what would become Allbirds as a graduate student at the London School of Economics in 2013....
...Nigel Thomas, maritime partner at London law firm Watson Farley & Williams, is doubtful they will return at all....
...Clare Coulson theitaliancollector.com Atelier Vime, ProvenceBenoît Rauzy and Anthony Watson established Atelier Vime after stumbling upon an 18th-century hôtel particulier in Vallabrègues, a Provencal village...
...(Bloomberg) Foreign diplomacy Washington offered the captain of an Iran tanker cash in a bid to seize the vessel....
...National Theatre, London to December 17, nationaltheatre.org.uk The Watsons Joyous and very funny spin on Jane Austen by Laura Wade, in which our heroine Emma Watson becomes embroiled in a meta-drama about...
...Round on the Links The link was Captains, in fact and fiction Ahab Alastair Cook (for scoring a century in his last Test innings) Flint Kirk Douglas Letter from America — with Alistair Cooke (initially...
...Captain Yossarian of the 256th Squadron, a bombardier reluctantly flying missions — a job that encourages the paranoid belief that everyone might be out to kill you — became one of the world’s most famous...
...After a few selfies posing as the French Lieutenant’s Woman, which was filmed here, I have a more distant memory of Captain Wentworth and the famous fall in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion — again set here...
...Early customers included Florence Nightingale, Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Scott and the shop has remained popular with expedition planners ever since....
...The Avengers films and their spin-offs including Black Panther and Captain Marvel have together taken more than $15bn in global ticket sales for Walt Disney....
...Sam Palmisano, the previous captain, had set the ship on autopilot, with a five-year financial plan — an unheard of commitment....
...His role in Captain America was fleeting, but it is still the big time. Does he notice the power of big Hollywood budgets? “No, you don’t,” he says....
...If you want to live like a retired sea captain, you can source beautifully made, top-quality marine instruments made of gleaming bronze, which provide a striking focus in a room....
..., the captain, talked them out of it....
...In the 1930s, IBM started hiring female college graduates and Thomas Watson Senior, its chief executive, said they should be paid equally with men....
...Tom Watson, the 2014 team captain, offered a simple conclusion: “They played better golf than we did”. In the rush for answers, Watson’s analysis was dismissed as simplistic....
...Captain-elect Steve Smith made an effective and, for him, orthodoxly unorthodox 143....
...A Towers Watson study in December 2013 pointed out that the vast cost of shoring up final salary schemes has constrained pay rises....
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