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...At the city’s annual champagne gala, La Fête du Champagne, grower champagnes go head-to-head with Krug, Bollinger and Ruinart....
...French interest from the likes of Drouhin, Méo-Camuzet, Jadot and more recently Bollinger, who bought Ponzi in 2021, has generally been seen as benign....
...David Kabiller, one of AQR’s co-founders, attributes Asness’s slight mellowing to the calming influence of John Liew, the third member of the company’s leadership triumvirate....
...Come over one day after work and I’m opening a bottle of Bollinger”, read one....
...The much-loved quote by Madame Lily Bollinger includes times when she is sad. Churchill echoed Napoleon when he said: “In victory you deserve champagne, in defeat you need it.”...
...She then worked for Park Place, a co-operative of five painters and five sculptors, including Mark di Suvero, Robert Grosvenor and David Novros, who remain part of her gallery stable....
...“Nothing stood out this year,” said judge David Campbell, the publisher of Everyman’s Library. “There were a lot of witty submissions, bloody good novels, but they weren’t comic novels....
...On the face of it, this looked like a David and Goliath battle, but David in this case is a media professional....
...Waiters buzz through the aisles bearing plates of crustless sandwiches, truffle or lobster soup, and champagne circulates fast — I saw a porter wheel in 200 bottles of Bollinger....
...In theory, David Cameron and Radoslaw Sikorski should get on marvellously....
...David Warren, international director of jewellery at Christie’s, has been urging his clients to buy natural pearls for decades....
...The chancellor was not exactly sipping Bollinger and eating wild boar in the Alte Post restaurant on Thursday night, but even the sight of him laughing over a pizza with David Cameron and Boris Johnson created...
...“In Barclays and in financial services generally there was a phase of what I think is now seen to have been excess,” Sir David Walker, Barclays’ new chairman, said....
...Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered, was in Downing Street this week to lobby prime minister David Cameron about risks to the City, including the threat of new EU curbs on bonuses....
...Additional reporting by David Oakley...
...Privately David Cameron and Mr Osborne were desperate for the Barclays chief to pick up the loaded revolver they had placed in front of him....
...Asked by the Tory MP David Ruffley for a straight yes-or-no answer, he offered a thousand words....
...David Hesketh is the Master of Wine in charge of selling so much Laurent Perrier rosé champagne in the UK that in 2007 it had to be put on allocation....
...The winning prize (“Prize”) consists of 6 Bottles of Champagne Bollinger Rosé. 5....
...It is baffling that Solar was judged the winner, in May, of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction....
...And congratulations to Jason Farago from New York, who was the first correct entry drawn and who will receive the prize of six bottles of Champagne Bollinger Rosé....
...Also featured are guest blogs from: British foreign secretary, David Miliband President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger London School of Economics director, Sir Howard Davies Chairman of Morgan Stanley...
...If tonight’s party turns out to be celebratory, Mr Johnson would be advised to steer clear of the Bollinger. He would need a straight head for the business of being a mayor....
...That seems to have been Bill Bollinger’s experience....
...Some students have begun circulating a petition asking Mr Bollinger to resign over his alleged failure to protect the professors....
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