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...Bluecrest’s Mark Bradford will join hedge fund Brevan Howard next year in the newly created position of head of Treasury....
...Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Centuryby Helen Thompson, Oxford University Press £20/$27.95 Helen Thompson is professor of political economy at Cambridge university....
...I’ve recently rediscovered an old VHS tape of Howards End with Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson that I watched with a close eye. It’s still every bit as wonderful as when it was released....
...The gap between arts and industry is portrayed in the tension between the practical Henry Wilcox and the artistic Schlegel sisters in EM Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End....
...Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson wrote a spoof story for Rolling Stone magazine about a presidential candidate taking it in the 1972 campaign....
...A spate of staff defections at UK insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson after its £4.3bn acquisition by Marsh & McLennan was not a “crisis”, the head of the US company has insisted....
...European has a combined weekly print and online circulation of around 20,000, with contributors such as the author Bonnie Greer, the Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland, and the Booker prize-winner Howard...
...Simon Thompson, Rio’s chairman, last month travelled to the Pilbara to meet the PKKP....
...In a separate letter to the government, also published on Thursday, a group of women including former home secretary Amber Rudd and Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the government’s Environment Agency, joined...
...She is the only person to have won an Oscar for both acting (in 1992’s Howards End) and writing (1995’s Sense and Sensibility) and confirms that, yes, both statuettes sit on the porcelain cistern in the...
...“I know that this is a difficult time to ask for more, but now is the time for all of us to raise the bar,” FRC chief executive Jon Thompson said....
...But Donald Rosenfeld, former president of Merchant Ivory Productions, which made period classics such as Howards End starring Emma Thompson, feels audiences will want serious films....
...technique – handpainting the fragile porcelain flowers and forging copper stems rooted inside pots of terracotta or trelliswork – that secured his first commission from New York-based interior designer Howard...
...This is a man who once happily spent $3m firing the ashes of Hunter S Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, out of a cannon....
...Anything that gives you further clarity as to what you might expect [after self-reporting], as opposed to ‘do it and we’ll see’, is to be welcomed,” said Ian Ryan, head of business crime at the law firm Howard...
...McDonald’s offers Nestle’s products in Germany, but Alexia Howard, an analyst at Bernstein, said investors were expecting a potential partnership between the fast-food giant and Beyond Meat....
...Mr Howard’s style is to place bets on sharp market dislocations, which can mean his portfolios do little for a long time before suddenly reaping huge gains....
...Emma Howard Boyd, agency chair, said this year the level was “too high”....
...“Businesses that fix prices or rig contracts are breaking the law and ripping people off,” said Howard Cartlidge, senior director of cartels at the CMA. “Pleading ignorance simply isn’t good enough.”...
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Thompson...
...Blom-Cooper also chaired the Howard League for Penal Reform for a decade from 1973, the Mental Health Act Commission from 1987 to 1994, and the Press Council in 1989 (before it was replaced by the Press...
...“There is a danger of unintended consequences further down the line,” said Mr Howard....
...Opening Ceremony, 35 Howard Street, 10013 (+1212-219 2688; openingceremony.com)....
...Warren Buffett: key moments August 30 1930 Warren Buffett is born in Omaha, to Leila and Howard Buffett....
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