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...King Lear Wyndham’s Theatre, London “You are old,” characters keep telling Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear — which feels a bit rough as, at 62, he makes for a pretty sprightly monarch....
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...At 8am on Monday, Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of drugmaker Merck, used an appearance on America’s main business TV network to address the killing of George Floyd....
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...Kenneth Whitty, who was then running the British Council in Athens, was assassinated by terrorists as he drove home from his office; a librarian to whom he had given a lift was also fatally wounded....
...He was one of the fiercest attack dogs on the Kenneth Starr team probing Bill Clinton’s improprieties 20 years ago....
...Phillips designed this studio complex in 1959 following his success producing Elvis and Cash, as well as Carl Perkins, Ike Turner, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison....
...Making movies is in Roy Price’s genes. His late grandfather, Roy Huggins, created television series such as The Fugitive, Maverick and The Rockford Files....
...He began his career as a tax lawyer and was special adviser on tax to Kenneth Clarke as chancellor between 1995 and 1997. Mr Troup was previously in charge of scrutinising settlements for HMRC....
...Philip Toynbee was chief book reviewer under Terence Kilmartin, widely seen as the prince of literary editors; Kenneth Tynan was recruited as theatre critic in 1954; Alan Ross wrote on both football and...
...“I wasn’t a big Roy of the Rovers fan,” he says, dryly. “I couldn’t connect to the more popular stuff....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...The production team waited more than a year to seduce Kenneth Branagh into playing the lead....
...And he quotes Kenneth Tynan, famous for F-words but obviously running out of D’s: “Distaste, disdain, revulsion …they are the nouns of England”....
...“Pugilism of one sort or another is never far from the edgy surface of our national life,” writes Kenneth Roy, the review’s editor....
...See, for example, Michelle Obama at a state dinner in New Delhi earlier this month, dressed in a bronze silk tunic and metallic velvet long skirt by Rachel Roy instead of a dress....
...Lazard picked veteran banker Kenneth Jacobs as its new chairman and successor to Bruce Wasserstein, whose unexpected death last month left a void atop the storied investment bank....
...Kenneth and Mary Gergen report that resilient older people are able to put their limitations into perspective....
...Kenneth Paterson at Rankin & Aitken concurs. The market, which was ticking over, “is now ticking over a bit faster; people are paying mortgage valuation, not much more.”...
...The same cannot quite be said of the next act we see – Roy Rogers Jr, at the Roy Rogers Museum theatre – but it is, nevertheless, a compelling spectacle....
...One example: the decision by Roy Vagelosto of Merck to donate the drug Mectizan to help cure river blindness in Africa. Departing CEOs can help prepare the next leader....
...Mr Beattie took over in 1998 from John Tory, a lawyer who spent 20 years advising Roy Thomson and another 20 counselling his son, Kenneth....
...“It is the next stage in their institutional development,” says Roy Martins, who runs the London prime brokerage business servicing hedge funds at Credit Suisse....
...“Like Isaiah Berlin, he made one feel one was interesting; it was a great gift. I once sat next to Julian Huxley at a lunch party and he never said a word to me....
...“They [the banks] were as involved in this thing as Kenneth Lay was, you don’t steal billions of dollars by yourself....
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