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...of weeks, but proper, open-ended living — Oscar Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn Monroe and Howard...
...metopera.org Photograph: Ken Howard...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...James Vernon, the chief operating officer and co-founder of Brevan Howard, the world’s fourth-largest hedge fund, is to leave the firm, the FT reports....
...Brevan Howard confirmed but declined to comment on Mr Vernon’s decision to leave....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...Moreover, two of the firm’s five founders – James Vernon and Jean-Philippe Blochet, the B and V in Brevan – left....
...In the first two days, we would visit the surviving gentry houses of Stamford and the great palaces of the plutocrat nobility outside York, including Beningbrough and Castle Howard....
...Brevan was set up five years ago by the secretive Alan Howard and four Credit Suisse colleagues, Jean-Philippe Blochet, Chris Rokos, James Vernon and Trifon Natsis - the B, R, V and N of Brevan....
...But Mr Vilar, 64, who denies all the charges, has spent the last three weeks in the Metropolitan Correctional Center a federal prison close to the financial district in New York's lower Manhattan trying...
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