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...WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum was the largest contributor to SFA Fund, giving $10mn....
...It has been edited by Duff Hart-Davis, who edited the three volumes of published Letters & Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles....
...Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder (John Murray)The great-granddaughter of former South African prime minister Jan Smuts explores what it means to be a descendant of one of the people...
...Jan Dalley wrote an interesting article on the dangers of imposing Russian cultural boycotts (“Sanctions and sanctimony”, Opinion, Life & Arts, FT Weekend March 19). I have a personal perspective....
...that might catch on / From Larry Davis, San Francisco, CA, US...
...JPMorgan Chase has appointed General Motors veteran Alicia Boler Davis to its board of directors. Max Chuard has stepped down as chief executive of Swiss software group Temenos. More from Lex....
...He joins from Davis Polk....
...While Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is still doing her little-girl number with her own not-so-little girls, Miranda is negotiating the ageing thing better than the others, with a chic grey bob and (in real life...
...Bankers across Wall Street have sought legal advice from law firms including Davis Polk on the schemes, said several people briefed on the discussions....
...In the summer of 1963, Jan Berris was sitting in an office half an hour outside Washington DC and converting a series of codes into English text....
...The show has an epic, elemental quality, with Jan Versweyveld’s starkly expressive design, Wim Vandekeybus’s restless choreography and van Hove’s searing stage images....
...In these pages in September, the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis argued travel writers and explorers should ignore their own sentiments and strive to look “beyond the shadow of self”....
..., Jan Morris and Nawal El Saadawi, to bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, and Maggie Nelson, and ending with extracts from Lola Olufemi’s Feminism, Interrupted (2020)....
...Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs chief economist who long defied consensus by predicting the Fed would keep rates on hold, has now pencilled in two cuts for 2019 on the basis of hints from chairman Jay Powell...
...Jan Versweyveld’s set begins as a puce box; the walls fly up to reveal a backstage from which props are brought on, and also a couple of upstage closets with windows through which video cameras periodically...
...The co-chairs include Jan du Plessis, chair of BT; Carolyn McCall, chief executive of ITV; Roger Carr, chair of BAE Systems; Ian Davis, chair of Rolls-Royce; James Timpson, chief executive of Timpson; Brent...
...Rio has been looking for a new chairman since March, when Jan du Plessis announced he would be joining BT Group. The company has said it wants to name a successor by the end of the year....
...Rio has been searching for a new chairman since March, when Jan du Plessis announced he would be joining BT Group. The company has said that it wants to name a successor by the end of the year....
...Rio is looking to replace Jan du Plessis, who is due retire in the first half of next year, but the process has run into problems....
...The Xstrata extravaganza in 2013 soured his relations with Mr Davis. Jan du Plessis, the current chair of Rio, rebuffed merger overtures from Glencore a year later....
...That approach was rebuffed by Jan du Plessis, Rio’s current chairman. But many in the industry think the logic of combining the two companies remains....
...Alongside University of California, Davis, and Cornell University in the US, it is one of the world’s leading research centres for food technology....
...(Jan Eichhorn of Edinburgh University on the LSE Politics blog) Hard numbers The “beast from the east”, a snowstorm that ravaged the UK in late February and early March, contributed to the fastest drop...
...Mick Davis, the former boss of Xstrata, looked set to the get the job, until a group of big shareholders blocked his appointment....
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