Hints and tips:
...Aircraft parts manufacturer AAR Corp said last month that chief John Holmes was awarded $7.3mn in stock to compensate him for pay lost due to bonus restrictions applied to companies that took Covid-19 relief...
...Credit Suisse’s West Coast US investment banking head Gregory Quilici has joined the boutique firm William Blair in San Francisco....
...It put $96m in 2014 into Theranos, the blood-testing group founded by Elizabeth Holmes, before the start-up collapsed following allegations of fraud....
...But the technology did not work, and Ms Holmes allegedly duped her investors....
...John Carreyrou took last year’s award with Bad Blood, his gripping account of the rise and scandalous fall of blood-testing company Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes....
...Though this early evening gig was pitched against Pat Metheny, Gregory Porter and the Mingus Big Band, the collective held their own, and bodies began to sway....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, about an Australian bank robber who escapes from prison and ends up in Bombay, where he becomes one of the locals....
...A well-thumbed copy of the Sherlock Holmes story “The Sign of the Four” sits on the coffee table. The victim is a reader. Was a reader....
...Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes: “That was the curious incident.” A strong opening gambit, as yen tales go....
...Holmes’ vivid biography of this Victorian intellectual brings her – and her age – to life. As the FT’s reviewer Lisa Jardine wrote, it “reads less like a biography than a 19th-century novel”....
...Viewers of House will know that Laurie is an accomplished musician; scenes showing the grumpy medic playing music were a homage to the amateur violinist Sherlock Holmes....
...Her withdrawal will give additional hope to runners such as Holmes....
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