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...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...“We have a lot of traditional investors hiding in dollar assets; the stronger it becomes, the more they hide,” said Mark Tinker, chief investment officer at Toscafund Asset Management in Hong Kong....
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...Letter in response to this article: Hong Kong tax rates are Beijing’s call / From Christopher Dillon, Hong Kong...
...Betting markets are less predictive than polling, write Robert Erikson, political scientist at Columbia University and Christopher Wlezien, Hogg Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin...
...But less exalted men also needed a corner of the home to call their own, to administer affairs or enjoy hobbies, even if it was just a simple desk or a yard to tinker in....
...Probably not, but it’s fun to tinker. Ardill tells me about a group of artist-activists called Platform....
...Christopher Alden co-wrote the compressed “text adaptation” and worked with a constrained budget in the 200-seat LUMA Theatre....
...During an interlude of slowly fading woodwind and string tones, the narrator tinkers with a wooden box that doubles as Jesus’s cradle....
...Daniel Kehlmann’s play, translated from the German by Christopher Hampton, is a chic, sardonic little comedy about male ego, jealousy and the value of art....
...Mr Woodham points to one of the successful ones: Christopher Wool, an American artist whose paintings sell for multiple millions....
...The framing device of the play proper, involving the tinker Christopher Sly, is here replaced by a ballad written by Morna Regan, sung by the contemporary cast before and after morphing into Irish folk of...
...Apart from Tinker Tailor, his best novel is, I think, A Perfect Spy (1986), which is also his most personal book....
...The failure of “Operation Wildlife” drags in Toby and Sir Christopher “Kit” Probyn, a former Foreign Office bod given his knighthood and his marching orders, who has retired uneasily to Cornwall....
...My favourite historically informed set is Christopher Hogwood – the 1980 CD version, not the later DVD remake....
...Enon , by Paul Harding, Heinemann, RRP£14.99/Random House, RRP$26 Harding won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize with his debut novel, Tinkers, but is not as well-known as he should be....
...Bailey not only preserves the Induction to the play (in which tinker Christopher Sly is taken in a drunken stupor and tricked into believing himself a lord, who then watches the play proper as a presentation...
...Producers taking on a big novel by a famous writer will often want to get a similarly big name screenwriter to adapt – someone such as Christopher Hampton (Atonement) or Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun)....
...However, Christopher Mier, a strategist at Loop Capital, said: “The doomsday scenario started to lose its impact on the market.”...
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: Yes, I think it should....
...Never mind that Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is directed by a Swede, Tomas Alfredson (of the arthouse vampire flick Let the Right One In)....
...Earlier this month, in a radio interview on the subject of Christopher Andrew’s new history of MI5, Defence of the Realm, Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, head of the domestic security service from 2002 to...
...Which means that now is the wrong time to tinker with institutions built around the idea of the equality and fraternity of all citizens. The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard...
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