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...Since then the country of 13mn people has had two coups d’état, four heads of state and three presidential elections....
...They have been joined by high-profile venture capital and digital asset investors such as Ron Conway, Fred Wilson and the Winklevoss twins....
...In the FT, if you have any doubts about how entitled and dangerous libertarian paper billionaires can be, read this piece on how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s own words landed him (quite rightly) in jail...
...“Please tell me we’re not going to jail,” said Slowensky, a high-school-band director....
...I’d hoped he’d go for his own creation — a Diet Cokagne, which went viral on TikTok earlier this year. “It’s not bad, actually,” he laughs. “A little champagne and a Diet Coke.”...
...They were believing that they’d been badly treated previously. They’d been badly paid. They’d been cheated on. That this was what they deserved and that only Daniel Kinahan could give it to them....
...They didn’t wanna sit in American jails, OK? They advanced their communications, they compartmentalised their operations. They insulated themselves from prosecution in America....
...“I’d cross a bridge at night, and walk across the steel works . . . It always seemed to be rather gloomy and raining, and I’d think ‘God this is beautiful’”....
...Peter Trubowitz I’d like to think so, but frankly, I’m not sure....
...The conditions in the jail in the Bahamas are notoriously difficult....
...Have thoughts on what you’d like to read in this newsletter? Email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...This year, Dangarembga was given a suspended jail sentence for taking part in a peaceful protest in Harare demanding political reform....
...“This was the height of my investigation, trial by media, and his school friends said, ‘Oh, your dad’s a criminal and he’s going to jail’,” Logan recalls....
...Deutsche Bank has promoted Gil Wilson to head of consumer and retail for the Emea region. Wilson has been at the bank since 2011....
...Yet I’d grown up loving their tales....
...I’m Michael Scott, Latin America editor at the Financial Times, and I’m standing in for Gideon Rachman, who’s away this week....
...In June 1958, he and other black leaders met with President Dwight D Eisenhower to discuss civil rights....
...The next day, I went to have a coffee in nearby Hebden Bridge with Scott Patient, a Labour councillor for Calderdale’s Luddendenfoot ward in his thirties....
...“Things have really turned around,” said Mark Wilson, a corn grower from Toulon, Illinois. “It’s looking pretty nice right now.”...
...“If my children sat at a screen for 10 to 11 hours a day, I’d lock it in a cupboard,” says Mike, who asked that his surname not be used. “All the fun has been sucked out of the job”....
...That, or a Hugo Wilson ceramic or bronze sculpture. I worked with him as an intern when I was at Central Saint Martins, and I’ve always admired his work: painting, sculpture, prints....
...I’d have found it difficult not to gush. I’d read her electric novel in a day and felt simultaneously affirmed and attacked by it....
...He joins in Beijing from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati....
...“But right now, it seems crazy to be talking about 90 days when I’d settle for just nine!”...
...It’s a different kind of poetry, and a different kind of underworld, but the latest in Penguin Classics in audio — previous highlights include Andrew Scott reading James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ruth Wilson...
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