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...Patrick Collison, chief executive of payments company Stripe, puts it more pithily....
...There was also the matter of the stream of accusations against Knight in the press. Each new one brought his story of being an Irish orphan with an aristocratic accent further into question....
...The novel explores the impact of a single piece of technology — a method of transporting matter instantaneously across any distance — as it evolves, gains ubiquity and gradually alters the world....
...Size matters in broking,” said John Ludlow, former chief executive of Airmic, a trade body that represents insurance buyers and risk managers within companies....
...One of his closest friends was killed in the Easter Rebellion in Dublin; as a student, Joyce had known Patrick Pearse, who was executed as one of the leaders....
...The company acquired grocery shops set up by Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose in 1937, and provincial department stores from Selfridges soon after....
...US law firm Hogan Lovells has hired Patrick Sarch as a partner and co-head of London M&A. He joins from White & Case where he was co-lead of the corporate practice in London....
...Additional reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin, Leila Abboud in Paris, Peter Wise in Lisbon, Arthur Beesley in Dublin, Andres Schipani in São Paulo, Patrick McGee in San Francisco and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo...
...Arlene Foster, DUP leader and former first minister, is facing a potentially critical report on her role in the affair when the findings of an inquiry led by Patrick Coghlin, a retired court of appeal judge...
...Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney’s fantastically provocative drama The Alternative (at the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire) is set in a parallel reality where Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom...
...Each July, thousands of pilgrims, many of them barefoot, walk up the rugged slopes of Croagh Patrick mountain in County Mayo in honour of St Patrick, the country’s patron saint....
...A stroll through the graveyard of St Patrick’s Church confirmed this....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letter in response to this article: The future is here and written in Chinese radicals / From Patrick Dransfield, Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...financial matters.”...
...Patrick McCoy, the former head of investment advisory for KPMG in the UK, has left the professional services firm after being charged with offences relating to a film tax scheme....
...He is in London to give a lecture at the Bank of England in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis, the late Saint Lucian Nobel laureate and one of the foremost scholars of economic development....
...In my experience, it doesn’t matter who owns the theatres — they all treat the customer with a degree of contempt quite inappropriate when the average ticket price is £40....
...Even though, as a matter of fact it wasn’t ours at all....
...… Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, RRP£29.95/ Belknap Press, RRP$39.95 The blockbuster success of the year....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...The Crane Wife, by Patrick Ness, Canongate, RRP£14.99, 320 pages Patrick Ness usually writes for young people but here turns out a polished adult novel....
...The paradox of great literary accounts of walking, from Laurie Lee to Patrick Leigh Fermor to Paul Theroux, is that the interesting bits come when the narrator stops walking and actually rejoins society....
...I do not know of a book that recounts the daily life in a ghetto in, say, Chicago; the secret life of a slum, or for that matter, the anthropology of Muslims on a depressed “sink estate” in the British Midlands...
...For the Arthur and Maggie of his title are Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher, and the jointure they have in history is the miner’s strike of 1984-85....
...Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is perhaps the best example of this shift from the great history plays, centring as it does on Willy Loman, or “low man”....
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