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...“I’m very conscious of rhythm. That’s an absolutely fundamental part of the editing. Tapping my foot, so to speak, and finding the rhythm,” he says....
...“But I’m told now that that’s not going to happen,” he says ruefully. Another strange alternative reality faces him: a year as the Booker Prize winner. Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor...
...Five Beijing-based employees of US due diligence firm Mintz Group were also detained earlier this year....
...The business community in China has been rocked by a spate of probes in recent months, including into international consultancy Bain & Company, as well as due diligence group Mintz and China-focused consultancy...
...Because I’m not interested! My interview, my questions.” Anyway, he adds, the film is scarcely light on betrayal....
...I’m baffled by why we fail to learn anything from history.”...
...Drew McOnie’s fun-size 60-minute production, which premiered at London‘s Southbank Centre last weekend, gets by with four musicians, six performers and a 30 sq m dancefloor....
...“I’m writing non-fiction but I’m thinking about music, the sound and timing of the language.”...
...“I’m . . . prepared for everything if it becomes really hard businesswise,” he says. “What I’m always worried about is individual employees.”...
...Dunne and Wachtell Lipton’s Ed Herlihy acted as architects on behalf of the PGA behind the scenes, both big hitters in the worlds of golf and M&A....
...Also worth viewing is McLendon Avenue Home by Robert M Cain, who incorporated a bridge into his design in order to overcome the challenges of having a creek on the site....
...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...In Frederick Elwell’s 1911 painting “The Wedding Dress” a woman in black crouches on the floor, her body bent over an open chest....
...I’m still a bit sceptical.”...
...Isabel BerwickI’m joined by my colleague Andrew Hill, the FT senior business writer, and Frederick Studemann, literary editor....
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...As the academic Frederick Starr has written: “De Gaulle succeeded because he envisioned a better future for France without Algeria than with it.”...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, here are the results of last week’s poll....
...Investec has hired Jefferies’ head of general industrials M&A Marc Potel as head of industrials M&A....
...Moelis & Company has appointed Citigroup’s Jugjeev Duggal, an M&A adviser focused on clean technology and related sectors, as a managing director in New York....
...This only makes me feel worse because I’m not confident that he can. And because I’m suddenly aware of his view....
...I’m too junior to be much affected by Ofsted or bear responsibility for things outside my control....
...When we — my sister, myself and our cousin — were little, my uncle Frederick had a gas fire, and he used to toast bread in front of it. I don’t know how he didn’t burn the house down....
...The Delaware courts have typically ruled on M&A and shareholder disputes, not personal misconduct claims....
...interest rates this year, volatility in equity markets closed the window for flotations, limiting exit options, which led to reluctance among investors to fund later-stage financing rounds, according to Alex Frederick...
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