Hints and tips:
...New York hedge fund stands to make over $5bn on Avis Budget share surge SRS Investment Management is sitting on well over $5bn in potential gains from yesterday’s leap in the share price of ailing rental...
...Snow Patrol’s 2006 hit, “Chasing Cars”, had a lyric inspired by singer Gary Lightbody’s father....
...His father John Sr — the once “indestructible”, fun-loving “Keith Richards of law” in the eyes of his son — died in February at age 81. The loss has left him pensive....
...Additional reporting by Gary Silverman...
...gary.silverman@ft.com...
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...Gary Powers experienced as much in 1960 when his U-2 spy plane, a predecessor of the Blackbird, was shot down by a Soviet missile....
...In testimony to a Senate committee, Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said: “Although we do not yet know the full facts of what happened in this matter, the system failed...
Orwell provides some of the best commentary for those interested in the Republican debates
Thanks to political developments this week, people here in the New York area can finally support one of their own in the 2012 presidential election. The funny thing is, that contest isn’t in the US, it’s in Russia
...Gary Locke has been tapped by the Obama administration to serve as its next top diplomat to China, replacing outgoing ambassador Jon Huntsman, according to an administration official....
...., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles Gifford....
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