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...Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Jonathan Cape) An award-winning biographer of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and a professor of English literature at Oxford university, Douglas-Fairhurst...
...The film is about a young stockbroker named Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who insinuates himself into the inner circle of crooked alpha investor Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) — a man “rich enough not to waste...
...The retirement speech of General Douglas MacArthur. A talk on three Caravaggio paintings by a National Gallery curator. Several hours of woodland noise to fall asleep to....
...Abrdn’s chair Sir Douglas Flint and Schroders chief executive Peter Harrison are among the top City figures underscoring the importance of remuneration to attract top talent....
...Measured in dollars, a lawyer named Douglas Wigdor would be the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
...The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the Worldby Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Jonathan Cape £20/Knopf Doubleday $28.95 Douglas-Fairhurst’s microhistory takes 1851, the year of London’s Great...
...In his letter (Letters, January 10) Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, the body dedicated to “messaging extraterrestrial intelligence”, questions John Thornhill’s concerns about aliens and...
...After playing host to a revolving door of activists over the years, including Carl Icahn, Nuance zeroed in on machine learning and natural language processing in the healthcare sector....
...From £49, themagic5.com Carl Douglas racing shell This specialist has been crafting wood-composite sculls since 1973 and is a leader in its field....
...Read the links above, or just read a Carl Hiaasen novel. But climate change takes the political stakes of this Hobbesian game to a new level....
...When a woman flirted with her husband Carl Dean, whom she married in 1966, she wrote the song “Jolene”, which became one of her biggest hits....
...“I met him when I was in my early 20s, and he was Douglas Adams’s publisher, and I was in awe of him,” the author Neil Gaiman tweeted....
...The structure is built from planks of local Douglas fir and is one of the forest’s most popular vantage points, with spectacular views — weather permitting....
...Their stories converge in the forest with those of others who see the crisis: Adam, a psychology student; Douglas, a veteran whose life was saved by a 300-year-old banyan tree when he fell “like a winged...
...Over the course of the 1980s, Charles Hull, Carl Deckard and Scott Crump developed the three main technologies of 3D printing: stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), and fused deposition...
...“BP’s comeback would not have been possible without the strong leadership and steadfast support of Carl-Henric and the board,” said Mr Dudley in Thursday’s statement, adding that: “Carl-Henric’s wise counsel...
...Douglas Roth, the centre-right chair of the council, calls the populists “not serious” for their constant linking of everything to immigration....
...Goodwin, a law firm, has hired Douglas Freeman and Victor Chen as partners in its private equity practice in Hong Kong. Before joining Goodwin, both Freeman and Chen worked for Paul Hastings....
...Douglas Steenland, AIG chairman, said in the statement that Mr Hancock was leaving the company "strong, focused and profitable”....
...The insurer had been targeted by the activist investors Carl Icahn and John Paulson, who last year secured seats on the board. Douglas M....
...It comes little more than a year after Mr Paulson secured boardroom representation along with fellow activist Carl Icahn, as the under-pressure company sought to avoid a damaging public fight with two of...
...He worked with the best: directors Billy Wilder, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Tourneur, and writers such as Carl Foreman, Irving Stone and Dalton Trumbo....
...Photographs: Corbis Sport via Getty Images; Douglas Miller/Getty Images...
...Carl Icahn, the activist investor who also publicly questioned Mr Hancock’s strategy last year, also has a representative on the board, which is chaired by former Northwest Airlines chief executive Douglas...
...Douglas Steenland, AIG’s chairman, said: “We look forward to benefiting from their insights as we move forward with our strategy to create a leaner, more profitable and focused AIG.”...
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