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...Thank you to David Hindley for filling in for me last week, and for those of you who wrote to wish me well in my second career — tutoring my children ahead of mock GCSE and A-level exams....
...ISS disclosed its recommendations to investors on Friday, saying they should withhold votes from Susan Decker, David Gottesman, Walter Scott Jr and Meryl Witmer, who make up the compensation committee....
...“When you have recently turned 80, and you’re already the oldest president in American history, people don’t instinctively connect you with the word ‘future’,” David Axelrod, Obama’s former chief political...
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
...Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century, by Torben Iversen and David Soskice, Princeton, RRP$29.95/£24 Many on the right argue that democracy subverts capitalism....
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...Corporate earnings include Burberry, Barrett, Robert Walters, Wetherspoons and Microfocus....
...RJ Mitte, 24, is best known for his award-winning role as Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad. Like his character in the series, Mitte has mild cerebral palsy....
...In their very different ways, Bush Jr and Obama show the opposite. To Michael J Glennon, in National Security and Double Government, the shifting personalities are mere detail....
...Geoffrey Cowan, president of The Annenberg Foundation – which operates Sunnylands – said recently that Walter and Leonore Annenberg always hoped the estate would become a “Camp David of the west, where the...
...Winston’s brother, William Jr, re-entered the operation....
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect focuses on one organisation that is trying to ride the wave of social networking, and Fred Goodman’s Fortune’s Fool plots the path of Edgar Bronfman Jr., his Warner...
...The death of Walter Leland Cronkite Jr at the age of 92 calls to mind a golden age of American television news journalism of which he, as the authoritative longtime anchorman for the CBS Evening News, was...
...They have been bucked up by the support of celebrities, such as singer David Bowie, who donated $10,000 to the teens’ legal defence fund....
...“Martin Luther King Jr had been telling people for a decade: don’t hate white people, don’t kill them, don’t resort to violence. He meant no harm to anybody. And they killed him.”...
...In the US, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. announced his intention to make a solidarity pilgrimage to the Holy Land....
...Earlier this week, Greenspan and his wife, Andrea Mitchell, attended a charity roast held by Barbara Walters on Wednesday night....
...A) Cuba Gooding Jr B) Sally Field C) Laurence Olivier 38. Thomas Pynchon 39. Tony Blair appeared in The Simpsons; Brad Pitt in King of the Hill; David Letterman in Beavis and Butt-head 40....
...Standing beside him was Thomas Cottone Jr, who became very interested in the array of medals on Edwards’ chest....
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