Hints and tips:
...“I’d characterise it as 95 per cent enthusiasm and 5 per cent activity at the moment, but in the next few months that will change and there will be a lot of dollars flowing,” he said....
...His deal with Senate Democrats was a straight exchange: he’d get the IRA through; they’d help him reform permitting....
...You know, Caroline Elkin had a big book out earlier this year, Legacy of Empire, which was a very unflinching, critical reckoning with the British empire....
...English, by contrast, was like “a boyfriend I’d tired of, someone I’d left years earlier”....
...We know banks have done well this year — in fact the hit marred otherwise gleaming first-quarter earnings from both banks — but we’d still consider a near $1bn loss as “material”....
...Both join from Vinson & Elkins. Skadden has added William McConagha to its Washington-based healthcare litigation and enforcement practice. He joins from Sidley Austin....
...“Judging from the sales at auction of coin jewellery, I’d say there’s definitely a renewed interest in the genre,” says Elkins who says the style appeals to a broad audience because “they have an interesting...
...But then she’d lose her exceptionalism, and a deeper truth would emerge: no one can ever get to be Lavinia, not even Lavinia herself....
...I’d be expected to ‘like’ the ‘likes’, and the friendship of sheep would continue unabated.” Maybe, you think, he should just delete Facebook....
...Lawrence Elbaum, co-head of the shareholder activism group at Vinson & Elkins, said to now expect an uptick in similar public battles....
...Vinson & Elkins has hired John Kupiec as a partner in New York. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...This feels like the right form for writing about Acker, who often blended texts with her own diary writings “so they’d seem to be about myself....
...“If another opportunity arises that can unlock shareholder value, I’d be open to those,” she said....
...and: “The general tone of this story is: A) Melancholic B) Comic C) Parodic D) Sarcastic E) Nostalgic” . . . when the answer ought to be “all of the above and more”....
...Shortly thereafter, the papers reported she’d vanished.” The hook is that the Settler’s Daughter is Lilliet herself....
...The vehicle turned out to be a long-neglected Baroque bow to mythological ritual, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers. A house of worship does not easily accommodate opera....
...An influential MEP told me some months ago that of the 250 meetings he’d attended in the preceding six months, 80 per cent were about high-frequency trading. This is an astonishing number....
...But as with any product, I’d think the price needs to come down.”...
...As Birnbaum told Wired magazine in 1999: “I’d go crazy if I lived with my own work all the time.”...
...After completing a law degree at Harvard in 1982, he went to work for Vinson &Elkins, a large Texas law firm that has many corporate clients....
...One of eight children, he joined the US Air Force to put himself through college and was then hired by Vinson & Elkins, the blue-chip Texas law firm, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982....
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