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...This is neatly illustrated in Tom Bower’s 2006 biography of the disgraced former media baron Conrad Black and his wife Barbara Amiel when an observer quips, “I don’t understand why Conrad wants to be the...
...HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford were other guests....
...This is Conrad Black, from an original sketch by Verna Sadock. Half-a-dozen readers guessed as correctly as it was possible to guess....
...mark on British culture, from Joseph Conrad and TS Eliot to Zadie Smith and Zaha Hadid....
...Barbara Amiel’s memoir of her life with disgraced financier Conrad Black describes the job of throwing parties for his illustrious contacts as both unpleasant and unasked for....
...The chief of the Austrian general staff, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, sketched out brilliant manoeuvres on paper but ignored such key practicalities such as having enough trains in the right places to get...
...Schiaparelli red brass Mouth earring (part of a pair), POA Penelope wears Burberry cotton/silk argyle rollneck, £1,490, and linen/silk jacquard kilt, £1,650....
...“There is no way the US rig count grows after the recent wave of consolidation by Exxon, Chevron, Diamondback and Occidental,” said Conrad Gibbins, co-head of the upstream Americas business at Jefferies....
...“The changes will have an impact — for some, especially those with young children, the ability to bring dependants is a differentiating factor in terms of which country to study in,” says Conrad Chua, executive...
...“The EU wanted robust governance, standards, transparency and high atmospheric integrity and the US wanted [an] anything goes [approach],” said Kevin Conrad, a director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations...
...Whereas in Joseph Conrad’s The Rover, after a lifetime of piracy on the eastern seas, the protagonist escaped to the nearby Giens Peninsula to find peace and a safe harbour to end his days....
...“There is no way the US rig count grows after the recent wave of consolidation,” Conrad Gibbins, co-head of the upstream Americas business at Jefferies, told me....
...the once-jailed media tycoon Conrad Black....
...Philosopher Hannah Arendt called it the “most cruel form of rulership”; novelist Joseph Conrad, the killer of “anything that breathes the air of human endeavour”....
...Every few years, I re-read Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. I have it on the go now. Jim is a sailor who has committed an act of dishonour on the high seas. But the narrator likes the lad....
...And so we follow him dragging his bosses into what is hoped may be a modestly lucrative partnership with the new king of the court. Sonny duly doorsteps family matriarch Deloris Jordan (Viola Davis)....
...He similarly blamed the title’s relative silence over Hong Kong on a fear of upsetting Chinese interests. The Barclays’ predecessor, Conrad Black, was jailed for fraud in the US....
...Infusing this built environment is the history, whether glorious (Joseph Conrad recovered from maritime illness here) or notorious (“Hackney diamonds” is antiquated slang for broken glass, such as might...
...The show in turn concerns a postwar playwright, Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), working with a troupe of actors....
...But when Conrad Tao is on the bill, as pianist or even composer, something surprising is in store. The American’s playing has an exciting sense of spontaneity, but that’s the least of it....
...That is positive for founder Parker Conrad, who left his last HR start-up Zenefits after regulators began investigating the company....
...Mark Conrad, who manages the financial equity portfolio for asset manager Algebris says that if the rules go through as proposed, “it’s a significant (RWA) inflation for Goldman, JPMorgan, the big (US) investment...
...The idea of an older man looking back at his younger self’s work is the subject of the novella The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad, the seafaring author with whom Dylan is familiar (his portrait appeared on...
...With some Shakespeare or Conrad, it is easier to see that one’s schemes to better the world have to reckon with the permanence of human nature, among other external forces....
...And the young Deas, recently appointed fellow of All Souls College, Oxford university, was buzzing with the adventures he had read about in Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece Nostromo, set in the fictional South...
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