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...Law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired Joseph Slights III, a former vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, as a member of its corporate governance practice in Wilmington, Delaware...
...Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, by Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$25, 224 pages Applebaum is as comfortable writing about people and their...
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...The added focus and funds will give botanic gardens the kind of kudos and influence they had when Joseph Banks and George III created Kew gardens in the late 18th century....
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
...Just 300 copies were printed; the British Library holds a particularly fine example, a legacy from the library of King George III....
...“I couldn’t put it better than Woody Allen does, ‘Just give me a good game and a good beer.’ I’m just like the next guy.”...
...The CEO Within: Why Inside-Outsiders are the Key to Succession Planning By Joseph L....
...A softly spoken Californian with receding, light-brown hair and Woody Allen-esque glasses, he has lived in London since the late 1980s and has a bookish innocence....
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