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...In today’s newsletter: BP’s CEO is out The Barclay’s billion-dollar debt The DoJ takes on Google BP’s future-minded chief makes a premature exit In a shock move on Tuesday, BP boss Bernard Looney resigned...
...Wells Fargo has named Frederick Terrell as vice-chair of investment banking, based in Los Angeles. He joins from Centerbridge Partners....
...When Bernard McCoy was stationed in Italy with the US air force in the 1990s, the culture of design and creative collaboration he witnessed there made an impression....
...More on this topic It’s time to drop “Eurasia”, a concept that is less innocent than it sounds and has roots in Russian imperialism — a commentary by the scholar S Frederick Starr for the American Purpose...
...Before that, smileys had cropped up in various guises – Czech monk Bernard Hennet used them in his signature in the 1740s, while a crudely drawn face was discovered on a pot from 1700BC....
...“One was a Mr E Forbes Smiley.” Alarmed British Library staff checked the other volumes Smiley had examined. “Sure enough, maps were missing from those too.”...
...From the 1963 The Spy Who Came In From the Cold that launched le Carré’s career to his perhaps most memorable character, George Smiley, the owlish, crumpled spymaster of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which...
...Frederick traces the history of the movement for socially responsible businesses back more than 50 years....
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...From James Bond to George Smiley, from the Scarlet Pimpernel to Richard Hannay, chilling tales of agents negotiating the shadowlands of the cold war, or foiling the murderous plans of revolutionaries, have...
...It backfired for Hock Tan, but will Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man and the mastermind behind the world’s most powerful luxury group LVMH, have better luck?...
...The evening’s centrepiece was Frederick Ashton’s 1976 A Month in the Country, which distils five acts of Turgenev down to 50 minutes of emotionally charged dance....
...Poet Bernard Kops, now 92 and still living in the area, recorded his first impressions in his memoir: “Through the glass I could see bums, failures, neurotics.”...
...These include Banksy’s spray-paint on canvas “Bomb Love” (2003, £240,000) and acrylic and spray paint “Smiley Copper” (2003, £680,000). Works start from £15,000 and are on view until July 3....
...He never trademarked the smiley....
...Professor Wendy Hall believes the internet is at risk of splintering into four quarters Sarah O’Connor explains why women who go to university are winning Frederick Studemann on why east Germany fears...
...sheets, which range from a loose, bold study of drapery by Sir Peter Lely to a highly finished gouache on vellum, a meticulous reduced version of Poussin’s “Hercules Between Virtue and Pleasure”, made by Bernard...
...“My name is Minnie Frederick,” Minnie Frederick tells a relative. “My sister, Lois, is married to your great-uncle Joe. Gosh, we sound old! I’m the dedicated aunt of Annie and Jesse.”...
...The return home of Bernard Pomerance’s play centring on one of the Victorian age’s greatest curiosities?...
...Bernard Pomerance’s 1977 play explores the relationship between Merrick, the doctor Frederick Treves and actress Mrs Kendal, and explores the cruelties and hypocrisy of Victorian times....
...The “heroic friendship” of Oxford colleagues such as Bernard Williams, who went over Berlin’s older work for republication, is of a different order....
...Then the Broadway revival of this 1977 play, by Bernard Pomerance, will provide a palpable sense of the drama’s clear storytelling and elegant dismantling of Victorian hypocrisies....
...There are tribal arts dealers too: Didier Claes and Bernard Dulon....
...Frederick Lukoff, CEO of Stella McCartney, half-owned by Kering, monitored trends in China sales at regular meetings of brand chief executives in 2009 and 2010....
...Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Don DeLillo set novels in sport. Richard Ford actually wrote a novel called The Sportswriter....
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