Hints and tips:
...“The reason I’m such an old first-time novelist — I’m 50 — is that I wasn’t ready to do this before....
...“I’d love to be back . . . I’m in contact with the guys and they want me back, when I’m allowed to go back. That won’t happen this year . . . The door is not closed.”...
...This year, it’s a new book called The Rise of Corporate Feminism by Allison Elias about the evolving role of secretaries....
...“I didn’t know I’d become a film-maker at all.”...
...It occurred to me when I got there that this car park was the largest piece of flat land I’d seen since leaving Locarno....
...“Physically, I’m not strong enough yet,” he said, speaking softly and switching between Spanish and broken English....
...And you’d struggle, really, to hang a coat on most of the characters or to spy any nuance in the story. But then veracity is never this show’s thing....
...“I’m doing huge artworks,” they say, “designing handmade tiles — and completely cladding the external colonnade.”...
...It is not, Levine points out, representative of his own way of working: “I’d like to think I would stop short of conscious manipulation of a kind you see in a movie....
...“It was hard because I’d got to know them really well.”...
...“A friend called to ask if I’d be interested in something like this, and I said yes, but I was doubtful we’d get access,” JR says....
...“But you’d use them more effectively only if you have the IT and analytical staff or more IT-trained leaders.” Mr Elias, meanwhile, insisted his project showed rehabilitation could succeed....
...I think I’d finished school, but I’m not sure. We had come for a weekend over new year, partly because we knew Barça were playing at home....
...Fashion assistant, Honey Elias. Photographer’s assistant, Tirtha Lawati....
...Fashion assistant, Honey Elias. Photographer’s assistants, Ed Aked, Thomas Carla....
...I’m very proud of having stayed the course. And if a young writer came up to me and said give me one piece of advice, I’d say: ‘Stay the course’.”...
...That was my intention when working on the replica of the throne with the sculptor Elias Boko, using the same Iroko wood as the original....
...For the best financial services training you’d go to Wharton, for technology to Sloan or to Kellogg for marketing....
...Trad showed his M table made of green, black and white marble in an exhibition presented by Danish digital design store Adorno during Beirut Design Week last June....
...Again he tries not to offend, saying he’d be happy to do blockbusters, so long as they respect the fans....
...Big Pharma M&A is back....
...The comments from Elias Zerhouni, global head of research and development at the French drugmaker, come amid investor frustration over the drugmaker’s two recent failed attempts to acquire promising biotech...
...Elias Zerhouni, president of global research and development at Sanofi, said the medicine marked “an inflection point . . . It is a pipeline in a single drug”....
...“I don’t have the computer programming background to make it in fintech, but I’m really interested in it and if ever an opportunity came up in that area I’d take it with both hands,” says the 28-year-old...
...“It came as a total surprise,” he says, “though I’m surprised that the FT’s interested in me.”...
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