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...People who have done business with Trautwein and Aurelius said he frequently acted on the firm’s behalf, including sitting on portfolio companies’ boards or handling their bankruptcies....
...When it was all over, some £690,000 had been traded on the match on Betfair alone, nearly four times more than any other match that week. Back in the locker room, Kicker broke down....
...And in Canada, former prime minister Brian Mulroney can contact prospective clients on its behalf....
...While The Strokes, and the similarly charismatic Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, were filled with supreme confidence and a vision of themselves, they could only become rock stars because they were anointed as...
...Mr Coyne’s pitch to Unite members is that — at a time of economic flux — they need a leader who is focused on their needs rather than “playing around with Westminster politics all the time”....
...Ian Plenderleith, chairman, Sanlam UK and former member of the MPC Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...The most important idea of all, she argues, is that of “bourgeois equality”, the belief that everybody is entitled to better himself or herself....
...“It’s 11 o’clock on a Monday night and you’re frustrated with each other and asking, ‘Why are you not seeing it my way?’” he says....
...Adoboli was one of four traders on UBS’s exchange traded funds desk, which traded on behalf of both clients and the bank....
...As technology continues to wreak havoc on the distribution of news and entertainment, the next generation of media and sport pioneers will need to be similarly adaptable....
...As politicians, pollsters, academics and bookies argue over the validity of a possible Labour Queen’s Speech supported by SNP votes, Lord O’Donnell, a former cabinet secretary involved in the last round...
...But usually Lael, who was a different approach to these kind of things, Lael would generally get somebody to ask on my behalf, and [Merkel] never wanted to see me....
...So if you give critical feedback to people, there are some people who will be in tears and others with whom it won’t even register.” He sounds equally uncomfortable discussing himself....
...(Private Gar consistently refers to him as “Screwballs”), Laura Donnelly as the might-have-been Kate and, especially, Valerie Lilley as the O’Donnells’ housekeeper, Gar’s dead mother’s sister, all make their...
...Phil Porter’s Blink (from Soho Theatre and Nabokov) and Ronan O’Donnell’s Angels (another product of the Óran Mór programme) are, respectively, a two-hander about an awkward, obsessive and ultimately abortive...
...Harry and the Dinosaurs Go On Holiday! , by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds, Puffin, RRP£6.99 Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs go on a family trip to Australia....
...I only ask because the decision to replace Sir Gus O’Donnell, who currently does all these jobs, with three different people is looking increasingly like a messy compromise. Consider....
...First the Fox scandal then the announcement that Sir Gus O’Donnell is retiring as cabinet secretary and head of the home civil service. Behind the scenes there have been all sorts of power struggles....
...On the one hand, there is McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta, the highest-profile Indian-American business figure of the 1990s and early 2000s and the embodiment of the Bower values; on the other, there...
...As white power music grew in strength, it branched out and spread to other countries. New record companies came on the scene: Rock-O-Rama in Germany and Rebelles Européens in France....
...These will put more pressure on ministries to run competitive tenders for the supply of equipment, says Clara Marina O’Donnell of the London-based Centre for European Reform....
...clear that it took plenty of negligence, greed and misplaced trust on the part of others to build his pyramid....
...The decision of Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, to follow the New Zealand example and prepare a manual for coalition should lead, he believes, to more transparent government and give civil servants...
...Even Anthony O’Donnell gets laughs out of the now wincesomely unfunny Dogberry scenes, largely by standing on a box to boost his squat frame....
...He finds it easy to believe the worst of others because he gives himself so little quarter. So, in the “rogue and peasant slave” soliloquy, Law builds to a howl of “O, vengeance!”...
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