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...It also hand-picked its judge: Robert D. Drain, the only bankruptcy judge sitting in the White Plains Division of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York....
...So the eight-year-old Eric decided he’d do the deed for which he’d been punished and set fire to the school. “I got rather frightened and I thought I’d better tell the headmaster,” Hebborn said....
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
...Obviously they’d prefer the institute to carry their name but may be open to more subtle branding. I can’t deny there will be protests....
...She hopes it keeps a spotlight on the Sacklers. “I’d like it to be productive,” she says. Poitras and Goldin first met at a film festival in Portugal in 2014, the year Goldin was prescribed OxyContin....
...I’d agree with Daniel Blake who writes in the FT that a multipolar world need not be a bad thing for investors, but I also think Mohamed El-Erian is right that we may be too sanguine, particularly in the...
...She grew up in rural Ireland, and wrote that, after the Bloody Sunday massacre, she’d have joined the IRA “in a heartbeat” if they’d have allowed her....
...year’s shortlisted titles as being a thrilling read, but you could go back and look at others, whether it’s Empire of Pain, which was shortlisted last year, the sort of horrifying at times story of the Sackler...
...We’d love to see that become a trend.”...
...“Weekday afternoon in the spring is the best time to visit and fully immerse yourself in coffee with a touch of Vitamin D,” she writes of Fringe, which was opened by former photographer Jeff Hargrove....
...The tide seems to have turned on the Sackler family. I hope very much we will come to see the far wealthier titans of some parts of social media as equally pernicious....
...As our conversation continued last month, I mentioned a few books that I knew he’d like to hear about — Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel Whereabouts, Patrick Radden Keefe’s unsparing history of the Sackler family...
...of them and they smelt so beautiful – it is the smell of my childhood,” says Blahnik from his home in Bath, where every corner of his terrace is smothered in pink roses, including the climber “Mortimer Sackler...
...It involved marketing tactics you’d expect from the hyper-competitive world of Big Pharma — incentivising prolific distributors, encouraging brand loyalty, offering mail-order deliveries to frequent users...
...Emails from prosecutors reveal the Sackler family fretted over threats to their wealth....
...She’d been given a camera in her teens, and began to photograph her friends....
...Purdue Pharma, owned by certain members of the Sackler family, had settled a 2007 misbranding case of its opioid OxyContin for $600m....
...I’d be an architect. I studied at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in the late 1970s . . ....
...And ethical concerns are increasingly an issue, with the report citing the pressure put on museums over money given by the Sackler family....
...We’d love to hear your recommendations. Send to Due.Diligence@FT.com....
...“I’d love to take credit but I can’t take too much,” she said. Nonetheless, her very public statements about the issue will have added to pressure on the gallery....
...“I assumed over the past decade we’d raise money from the very wealthy residents in London who didn’t necessarily have a long track record of giving....
...With this in mind Mr Ibargüen has been working with M+D on an event at Art Basel called the “Arts Funders Forum” that he believes will help bring art institutions and donors together to develop a new model...
...I don’t think I’d like it to be the end of the world, but there is a real danger.” She pauses, glancing up, before insisting: “It’s up to us all.”...
...The Sacklers are one set of villains. Social-impact investors are another....
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