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...Conrad Tao performs with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H Koch Theater, New York, on November 6 and 8 and tours with Junction Trio from November 28-December 11, conradtao.com Find out about...
...The twins’ 2004 acquisition of the newspaper from Conrad Black’s Hollinger after a bitter bidding war marked a crowning achievement for the entrepreneurs, who were raised in a working class family in southwest...
...“We came out pretty strongly to dispute the findings,” said David Antonioli, Verra’s CEO, shortly before announcing his resignation in late May....
...David Sacks, general partner of VC firm Craft Ventures, who like Calacanis is a close associate of Elon Musk and has a large following on Twitter, warned of further bank runs....
...The Princeton University Art Museum, which is undergoing a major expansion designed by the architect David Adjaye, has acquired a striking gold aquilla, or drinking cup, made in Peru between 1400 and 1530...
...It was here that I at last met Binyavanga, who generously included me in a circle of writers — among them Parselelo Kantai, Martin Kimani, David Kaiza, Billy Kahora, Jackie Lebo and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor...
...Joseph Conrad’s novel was published in 1904, but has uncanny echoes of today in its battles over precious metals in a fractious postcolonial country....
...Its membership has maintained its lustre over the years, since hosting Virginia Woolf (whose father opened the Reading Room here), Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, EM Forster, Winston Churchill and Bram Stoker...
...Initially in 2003, David and Frederick negotiated a controversial arrangement with the owner Conrad Black, the media baron who was later convicted of obstruction of justice and theft and pardoned by Donald...
...Conrad Hilton was over 50 and had been operating hotels for more than 20 years before he bought his first property outside Texas in 1939....
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...As the great historian Conrad Russell put it, parliament was an event, not an institution....
...Born in 1931 in Poole on the southern coast of England, le Carré’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell....
...And dad collected a whole book of cartoons by Conrad, a cartoonist for the LA Times, just on Nixon....
...They bought the title for £665m after a complex pursuit first of Conrad Black, then Hollinger International....
...“There is so much talent at Google and under David’s leadership they are doing some really exciting things,” she said....
...APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) Coppola’s Vietnam film gives Conrad’s Heart of Darkness a quadruple bypass: new war, new landscape, new infernos, new style of epic allegorising....
...Conrad Black and his wife turned up to a party as Cardinal Richelieu and Marie Antoinette. Not long after, he was in jail....
...In the very preface to The Pleasure Dome, as if advertising the sober mischiefs and iconoclasms to come, Greene recalls his first meeting with mogul David O. Selznick....
...In a safe Norfolk seat, Nick Conrad, a former BBC presenter, was forced to stand aside for comments on rape deemed “completely unacceptable” by the prime minister. Both were rapidly replaced....
...“David came in really as the person to put the focus on growth,” he adds, citing the “critical” need to expand into new businesses....
...The Angolan rebel leader had committed atrocities “that made Heart of Darkness look like a vicar’s tea party”, said Fred Bridgland, who wrote a biography of Savimbi, referring to the novel by Joseph Conrad...
...She cites the Cape Town blacksmith Conrad Hicks’s quirky “Toolmaker’s-Server”, made of hand-hammered cast iron, copper, brass and high-carbon steel — “a very anthropological, experimental work”....
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...Conrad’s “the horror, the horror” had come to adventure-futurism on screen....
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