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...“I really understand how Catholics were treated in Belfast and Northern Ireland — it was horrific,” says Paula Robinson, 33, who attended Black Mountain as a teenager and now runs the group....
...I even told my FT predecessor, David Robinson, whose move to The Times allowed me in, that I didn’t expect to become a veteran....
...Blood is throbbing at my temples, the air is rasping at my throat, and my brain is blaring Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” on repeat. The steep road before me will not relent....
...He earned this position after a rapid rise through the fashion world, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1994 and working for designers ranging from Donna Karan to Tom Ford until 2001, when he joined...
...Of the mega names on the fashion week schedule, from Celine to Fendi, Dior, Vuitton, Givenchy, Pucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren...
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...They may have specific requirements, but there are few prima donnas. But you get those in all sectors, whether lawyers or bankers.”...
...Mr Biggs runs the company with his wife, Donna, who started the business in a spare bedroom in 2003. It now runs out of a 5000sq ft warehouse and employs 12 people....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...It’s hardly a new subject of course – Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 – but in the context of the “always-on” digital world, it feels more relevant than ever....
...So to help people like the Modimbas, Esther, Kremer, and Robinson designed the Savings and Fertilizer Initiative (SAFI) program....
...Grace also acted occasionally, including as Captain Braga opposite his friend and fellow Irishman Pierce Brosnan in Robinson Crusoe (1997)....
...His friend, Donna Murdoch, was also charged....
...Before taking over at Burberry from Rose Marie Bravo in 2006, Ahrendts worked at Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne, reviving the fortunes of the fashion houses through diversification....
...Poaching a whole posse of prima donnas (a la Deutsche Bank’s double raid on Citigroup’s Asia-based private banking teams) ups the ante considerably....
...“With any audit, you look at the organisation and how it uses IT and assets,” says Matthew Robinson, footprint management and advisory for HSBC....
...www.jancisrobinson.com More columns at www.ft.com/robinson...
...Hogg Robinson improved 1 per cent to 100p after Kaupthing Bank cleared an overhang by placing 7.5m shares at 99p....
...David Copperfield (surely a work of literature if ever there was one) leaves “a devastating hole in [his] life” and he falls head over heels for the indisputably literary Marilynne Robinson....
...Nevertheless, Rentokil, the support services group, jumped 10.1 per cent to 166½p after Raphoe Management, the investment vehicle set up by Sir Gerry Robinson to buy into underperforming FTSE 100 companies...
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