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...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...In this cautionary tale, reporters Au-Yeung and Jeans unsparingly shed light on what went wrong....
...That needs to change.” — Mel Gardner...
...In her history of Cartier, Francesca Cartier Brickell believes that, in the time of her grandfather Jean Jacques, “Cartier London created only about a dozen Crash watches”....
...I half-expected him to be wearing chef’s whites, but he’s in jeans and a grey-blue jumper, his broad smile instantly recognisable. I apologise for being early. “I’m always early too,” he says....
...Alongside the symphonies, which enjoy a central place in concert-hall programmes, Jean Sibelius left a wide range of evocative orchestral works, many based on his native Finnish mythology....
...Comprising around 100 lots, the collection reflects Catroux’s eclectic personal taste, spanning works by 20th-century artists such as Jean Cocteau, Luis Tomasello and Tom Wesselmann, as well as antiques...
...david.gardner@ft.com...
...John le Carré’s 2001 thriller The Constant Gardner recounts the murder of an activist who knows too much about an unethical medical study being conducted in Kenya by a German company....
...Following the devastating explosion in Beirut, David Gardner examines Lebanon’s multiple crises. (FT)...
...”) and Frank Sinatra, to whom he was introduced by Ava Gardner....
...(Bloomberg) Erdogan’s iron fist David Gardner thinks a trial of civic activists shows that Turkish democracy might still be in peril — despite last weekend’s Istanbul election result....
...Letter in response to this article: Vestager is certainly not anti-American / From Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, London, UK...
...Jean-Fabrice Brunel stands on the spot where, six months ago almost to the day, he entered the front door of his home in the Malibu Park neighbourhood for the last time....
...Casino chief executive Jean-Charles Naouri may be turning to Rihanna for an umbrella-ella-ella-ella to weather the storm....
...Sir John Gardner Wilkinson’s 1847 Handbook for Travellers in Egypt gives detailed notes on renting dahabiyas, advising: “The first thing to be done, after taking a boat, is to have it sunk, to rid it of...
...as lesser known actresses such as Billie Dove, Faith Domergue, Jean Peters and Terry Moore....
...Anthony Gardner, who served as US ambassador to the EU during the Obama administration, called this week’s announcement “useful theatre”....
...The FT’s David Gardner sees the result as a mixed blessing for Turkey’s strongman....
...“Outsider art” is the rough translation of “Art Brut”, a phrase coined by the artist Jean Dubuffet for work he described in his 1947 manifesto as “produced by persons unscathed by artistic culture”....
...Syria response Britain’s Boris Johnson and Jean-Yves Le Drian of France will make presentations on the weekend bombing raids in Syria. Cue much hand-wringing from EU partners....
...Design museums were previously considered the “earmarkation of excellence”, Gardner explains, hence the horror of some in the press and design community at the inclusion in the collection of Primark jeans...
...Trump’s Jerusalem move compromises fragile ally Jordan — David Gardner on the complex and continuing regional fallout from the decision to announce the US will recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital...
...Nigel Gardner Chairman, Flint Global, Brussels, Belgium...
...Jean-Claude Juncker provocatively claimed that “slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe”, before switching to French....
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