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...H&F’s investment also underscores the growing interest of private equity in professional services firms, and represents a return to large-scale dealmaking in the US accounting sector after a hiatus caused...
...Last week, Chicago-based Grant Thornton agreed to sell a majority stake to New Mountain Capital in the sector’s largest deal. Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...Three of Gunning’s buys feature in the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto....
...Crackling with asterisks, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play is a suitably sparky title for a show that’s like a lit stick of dynamite....
...“This is a crucial step towards building an AGI,” said Quoc V Le, a DeepMind researcher....
...During the last decade of her life, she landed campaigns with companies including Kate Spade, Magnum and eBay and worked on limited-edition collaborations with the likes of H&M and Mac Cosmetics....
...A long V-shaped fissure which cuts dramatically through the backrest, when seen from the front, reveals the silhouette of Batman’s horned mask....
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...Montblanc precious resin John F Kennedy Special Edition fountain pen, £955 Giorgio Armani patent leather Oxford lace-up shoes, £790....
...Taiwan has 141 older F-16 models which are being upgraded to the newer Viper type. The 66 new F-16 V aircraft approved by Trump are due to arrive by the end of 2026....
...Mollick highlighted another relevant paper on this, which took its title from an apocryphal story where president John F. Kennedy met a Nasa janitor late at night....
...This is not to say that every member or voter for the AfD or FPÖ is versed in their Carl Schmitt or H.S....
...‘F-111’, 1964–5, by James Rosenquist (Room 418) Rosenquist’s eruption of joyous vulgarity is tinged with an oddly bright and shiny form of pessimism....
...This early “Harry the h pawn” advance is known, but has rarely been used by a top-10 player in an elite over-the-board event....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...MB&F, Ulysse Nardin and Urwerk....
...S*H in passing....
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Meanwhile, [Disney CEO] Bob Iger is sitting in a billionaires’ retreat, saying that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic, when that b***h is making $78,000 a day.”...
...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
...But G goes on leave at this point, handing the file over to H, who drafts a minute, which is signed by D and returned to C, who revises his draft accordingly and lays the new version before A.”...
...The “weak link”, as Jefferies puts it, is Refinitiv’s “desktop franchise”, ie Eikon, ie the Bloomberg terminal competitor that is often invoked in the sentence “stupid f---ing Eikon”....
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