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...The playfulness found in A Stroke of the Pen (Doubleday £20) is gentler — perhaps unsurprisingly, because it’s a collection of early stories by Terry Pratchett, who died in 2015....
...Music always plays a big part during the day “from traditional carols to Mariah Carey’s Christmas concert” but Christmas never really begins until The King’s Speech. “I never miss it,” says Machin....
...It was in the mid-1990s, while researching Them, his book about extremists, that the British writer and documentarian Jon Ronson first came across the name Carol Howe....
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...The legend of A Christmas Carol and its popularity was in part created by the British reading public....
...“We believe the market has the same concerns right now,” Yuanta analyst Carol Juan said....
...January 2009: Carol Bartz, former chief executive of Autodesk, joins Yahoo as chief executive after Mr Yang stepped down in November 2008....
...Once-token female Carol Cleveland still appears bodacious at the age of 72, and those trademark bizarre Python segues between sketches finally acquire a momentum as the show gallops towards its close with...
...David Crow is the FT’s senior US business correspondent Photographs: Terry Ratzlaff...
...Terry Woolmer, the EEF’s head of health and safety policy, said: “We are only going to make further progress on sickness absence if we do something differently....
...includes Sir Anthony Hooper, a former appeals court judge; Gary Walker, who was dismissed as chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and went public with allegations of poor care; and Lord Terry...
...Terry Bird, from a Los Angeles law firm specialising in internal investigations, has been retained as independent counsel for the committee....
...Supporters of this view will note that Mr Yang was still fighting for the company he created, long after professional managers (and former chief executives) Terry Semel and Carol Bartz had departed....
...Dodger , by Terry Pratchett, Doubleday, RRP£18.99 Pratchett rejigs Oliver Twist in this tale of a “tosher”, a boy who scours London’s sewers for small treasures....
...Tim Morse, from Silicon Valley semiconductor company Altera, will take over as Carol Bartz continues to shape her management team folowing her appointment as CEO in January....
...Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, said on Wednesday that that plan did not meet an important Yahoo criterion: that it should have “skin in the game” over the long term....
...However, Carol Dempsey, reward partner at PwC, pointed out that employer contributions were not something that employees could easily calculate....
...So what is there to make of Carol Bartz’s much more lucrative package?...
...Yahoo appointed software veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive on Tuesday, an appointment viewed by Wall Street as safe but unspectacular. Ms Bartz, 60, takes up the position immediately....
...Terry Pratchett, author. Bernard Ribeiro, former president, Royal College of Surgeons. Mark Walport, director, Wellcome Trust, the medical research charity....
...The awards are unique for featuring the first mother and son appearance, with Chris Hoy’s mother, Carol, a nurse, made an MBE for her services to healthcare....
...Terry (oh-so-blonde) Keenan is hosting Your World With Neil Cavuto. French president Jacques Chirac has snubbed Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi....
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