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...America is going through a familiar phase in the lifespan of empires, where the hard power fades and the softer kind grows....
...That teenage escapism has spawned a juggernaut literary empire, in which Maas, 37, has created her own JRR Tolkien-esque universe populated by sexually charged fairies....
...Sales momentum slowed in the second half of the year, however, and despite the uptick in sales, industry data show that Asda has consistently underperformed its bigger rivals Tesco and J Sainsbury....
...In a filing on Friday afternoon, the office of Letitia James — who brought the civil case that found Trump vastly overstated the value of his real estate empire — said there was only “vague, incomplete,...
...family business empire....
...(For the uninitiated, between the aughts and coronavirus pandemic, Brother Jimmy’s, or Bro J’s, was a go to hangout for twenty-something finance bros, including Rashid.)...
...The lead plaintiff is an individual, Richard J....
...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Leaders are not mere politicians and this is why / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US...
...The continuing centrality of Kitagawa’s empire (now run by Fujishima) to the Japanese entertainment and media industries is hard to overstate....
...SLC Turnberry — the company that operates the resort — lists the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust as its ultimate controlling shareholder....
...Trevor Eliot Bowes is suitably grave as the philosopher tutor Seneca, and Amy J Payne walks away with her scene-stealing opportunity as nurse Arnalta....
...Brands such as J Crew and Gap developed damaging addictions to discounting in the years after the 2008 financial crisis....
...Křetínský’s bought stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London football club West Ham United....
...multimillion-dollar proxy clash between Disney and activists led by Nelson Peltz, the biggest battle was over the process to find a successor to Bob Iger, the chief executive who has run the entertainment empire...
...“The late Steven J Ross first introduced Ralph and I in the early 1980s and we hit it off immediately. In Ralph I recognised another storyteller....
...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...Joseph Safra, the Lebanese-Brazilian heir to a venerable line of financiers, was losing his grip on a $25bn global empire of banks, property and agribusiness interests he had steadily built up over decades...
...Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that Built British Colonialism by Philip J Stern, Belknap Press £30.95/ $35, 408 pages Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley and...
...Křetínský built his empire by scooping up overlooked businesses on the cheap, often using external financing....
...Two years later he founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now St James’s Place, the UK’s largest wealth manager — with Sir Mark Weinberg....
...Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass Pan Macmillan, £30 / Knopf, $46, 912 pages Bill Emmott is a former editor-in-chief of The Economist and chairs the...
...Eight, apparently: [WE Soda] has engaged J.P. Morgan Securities plc (which conducts its UK investment banking activities as J.P. Morgan Cazenove) (“J.P....
...The energy tycoon first built his empire by snapping up unloved, often carbon-intensive energy businesses on the cheap, often using external financing....
...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...
...J Lo and Shakira was awesome....
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