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...In today’s newsletter: Snowy conference still jammed Morgan Stanley’s shrinking lead Zara billionaire spots a deal Davos.ai Magician David Blaine playing backgammon against top UK public relations man...
...But I mostly listen to audio books, specifically ones by David Sedaris. I can listen to his books over and over....
...One scoop to start: Two of Goldman Sachs’ top investment bankers, including Mark Sorrell, have threatened to quit after being excluded from a new operating committee put in place by chief executive David...
...At the time, the official responsible for overseeing US engagement with international financial institutions — David Malpass, who eventually went on to lead the World Bank — was not only sceptical of the...
...Wheeler’s interest was further piqued when he saw that DFA was run by two protégés of Fama — David Booth and Rex Sinquefield....
...According to Blaine Docker, chief operating officer at Main Management, a Californian ETF provider, the rise of sector-rotating ETFs has been driven by mutual fund managers....
...To top it all off, attendees heard stories about a late night party at an abandoned railway station where R&B singer Usher took to the stage and illusionist David Blaine wowed guests with some tricks....
...There was a crowded karaoke night on Thursday; but the hottest ticket in town was Wednesday’s party in a train station-turned-event-space where R&B singer Usher and magician David Blaine performed....
...Blaine suspended in a large glass box; the exhilarating Argentine circus group Fuerzabruta diving through space....
...At the end of 2015, the rand plummeted after the sacking of finance ministers Nhlanhla Nene and David van Rooyen, boosting sales by 20 per cent as foreign investors took advantage, according to Carrick Campbell...
...We discuss penmanship and they ask to see my handwriting, which is good, and when they see me do it I feel like David Blaine emerging from a buried coffin. “You can actually do that?”...
...A few TED talks are by professional politicians or entertainers such as Al Gore or David Blaine. Most are not....
...Thinking the band’s musical abilities weren’t yet up to scratch, he brought in the peerless LA session musicians known later as the Wrecking Crew, and in particular Hal Blaine on drums....
...The sessions featured three musicians known as the “Hollywood Golden Trio”: bassist Joe Osborn, who gave the song its distinctive twin bass guitars; drummer Hal Blaine; and keyboardist Larry Knechtel....
...Within a few months, if learners study 20 minutes a day, five times a week, they can read simple texts, says David Ahern, the trust’s chief executive....
...His remarkable, terrifying – and frankly horrible – story is recounted in Escape from Camp 14 (2012), an account of his life as related to American journalist Blaine Harden....
...For David Blaine, the Houdini-style endurance stuntman, finding truth is a matter of forgetting....
...David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan professor and former head of the justice department’s environmental crimes section, agreed the state claims were not realistic....
...He has a fantastically funny cameo as a David Blaine takeoff – the life-endangering stunts done with the laser-eyed suavity of the truly deranged – opposite a Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi channelling Siegfried...
...Pharoah has tweeted that he saw David Blaine do this months ago. “More than 500m people have downloaded our commandments – that’s five times as many as any of our rivals,” he tells the audience....
...Why: David and Victoria Beckham lived here and spent £200,000 refurbishing the property before selling it in 2005 for £1.59m....
...ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner with photographs by Iwan Baan, Lars Müller Publishers, RRP£38 Torre David in Caracas...
...Blaine?...
...Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Mantle, RRP£16.99, 224 pages Harden sheds light on the horrors of North Korea, with a gripping...
...that is Donald Knaack’s Junk Music accompanies Twyla Tharp’s 1980s-modish and ferociously dated Known by Heart duet, which does nothing for Gillian Murphy and Blaine Hoven other than make them look cheaply...
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