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...Santander has agreed to hire the former co-head of Credit Suisse’s investment bank, David Miller, who becomes the latest executive to join from the collapsed Swiss lender....
...Michael Ebert, who co-led Credit Suisse’s investment bank with Miller, has been made sole head of the business as well as head of the Americas for UBS’s investment bank....
...Credit Suisse said David Miller and Michael Ebert would run the investment bank, while the unit’s chief executive, Christian Meissner, would focus on its strategic transformation....
...When David Hare’s play about the birth of Glyndebourne opera house opened at Hampstead in autumn 2015, it drew polite but slightly flummoxed reviews for its own polite portrayal of . . ....
...The Sussex Downs were the setting for one of David Hare’s most moving and humane plays: the school drama South Downs. For his latest he returns to Sussex, but with more mixed results....
...As the late film critic Roger Ebert once pointed out, when you’ve heard one f-word, you’ve heard them all....
...A doll was found hanging under an autobahn bridge in Jena, with two Stars of David and the word “Jew” scrawled on it. Electric cables led to a dummy bomb....
...Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times writes: “The Social Network” is a great film not because of its dazzling style or visual cleverness, but because it is splendidly well-made....
...Sam Leith recalls filing a vicious review of a David Lodge novel for The Spectator one morning and then being introduced to Lodge at a party that evening. “He was very pleasant,” Leith sighs....
...When John Cox, the director of productions at Glyndebourne from 1972 to 1981, was invited to direct a new version of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 1975, he asked David Hockney – an artist with no...
...“This is not a good-looking result at all,” said Craig Ebert senior economist at BNZ Capital....
...David Pickard, Glyndebourne’s general director, explains that the festival’s planning is driven primarily by the artists with whom it has close working relationships....
...And now David Beckham has been restored to the England soccer squad ahead of Friday’s showpiece match at the new Wembley stadium against Brazil....
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