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...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...No, Jack the Ripper does not sing....
...Do I think Jack’s and Tesco can coexist? Yes, I do.” The name Jack’s is a reference to the company’s founder, Jack Cohen, who died in 1979....
...Berg’s vocal writing for Lulu is murderously hard....
...He has taken an old Soviet newspaper kiosk, painted it with the Union Jack and put a revolving sign on top saying “Open for Business”....
...lissongallery.com Photographs: Alastair Levy; Jack Hems...
...Khuner observed Berg’s casting directives and baritone Philip Skinner brought a combination of desire and despair to Dr Schön and returned as a terrifying Jack the Ripper....
...Former Chief Executive, Pacific Pension Institute Ernst Welteke Former President, Deutsche Bundesbank Jack Wigglesworth Former Chairman, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange...
...Though he cites Moses und Aron as an inspiration, the music is unashamedly pictorial, echoing early Alban Berg more than late Schoenberg....
...AQI’s other high-profile victims included Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, Briton Kenneth Bigley and South Korean Kim Sun-il....
...“When he’s using money to pick on people his own size or bigger like the National Rifle Association or Big Tobacco, that’s good,” says Joel Berg, head of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, which...
...La Monnaie has staked a lot on this new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu....
...Instead of being knifed by Jack the Ripper, Lulu now ascends to the upper echelons of New York society, a hooker with a bulging bank balance and an empty heart....
...Many of these were developed using what Matt Webb and Matt Jones, two of Berg’s three principals alongside Jack Schulze, like to call “material exploration”....
...Cruise’s next film Jack Reacher, based on a Lee Child bestseller, is due for release at the end of the year. Grey gets most animated when talking about the films being developed at Paramount....
...The only singer who comes across as flesh-and-blood is Michael Volle’s Dr Schön/Jack the Ripper....
...Py mistakenly tries to reproduce on stage what he calls the “unbearable chromatic hysteria” of Berg’s music....
...From Jack the Ripper – who murdered his victims in nearby Whitechapel – to Jack “The Hat” McVitie – whose stabbing put Reggie Kray behind bars – it is a part of London that has long been associated with...
...Mezzo-soprano Natascha Petrinsky is the Countess Geschwitz (one of Lulu’s string of luckless admirers), and bass-baritone Stephen West takes the double role of Dr Schön, Lulu’s third husband, and Jack the...
...Wells Fargo rose 0.5 per cent to $26.09, after Bloom-berg reported the bank planned to pay back bail-out money to the US government without issuing new shares....
...Lulu fascinates because she’s so hard to pin down, leaving us unsure whether we should pity the fallen harlot who meets her sordid end at the hands of Jack the Ripper or conclude that she simply got her...
...It would bring to British soil the atrocities inflicted on the reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and on Nicholas Berg and Kenneth Bigley in Iraq....
...According to Jack Persekian, curator of this year’s Sharjah biennial, no museum in the UAE currently has the infrastructure to host the sort of large-scale international exhibitions that western visitors...
...; and Jack Mastroianni, her New York manager, for whom “it was more important that I should play with top-quality orchestras than go around just making money”....
...But it has been particularly prominent since the decapitation of Nicholas Berg in May, months before the murders of Mr Bigley, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley....
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