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...Jonathan Harper, global consumer practice leader at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, said: “It is perhaps too early to judge [Jope’s] overall performance, since the next 15 months will be critical to...
...Mania by Lionel Shriver (Borough Press/Harper)Never shy of getting stuck in, Shriver now sets her satirical sights on groupthink and the policing of thought....
...Jonathan De Mello, head of retail consultancy at Harper Dennis Hobbs, said Primark outlets are often the anchor store in a shopping centre, making leases particularly valuable to landlords that need to provide...
...Jonathan De Mello, head of retail consultancy at Harper Dennis Hobbs, agreed that Intu had “good malls in strong locations . . . though there is a divergence between the strongest, like the Trafford Centre...
...Jonathan de Mello, head of retail consultancy at Harper Dennis Hobbs, said landlords “would much rather have the rent that Arcadia signed up to than a 20 per cent stake in a failed business....
...Jonathan De Mello, director of retail consultancy at Harper Dennis Hobbs, questioned whether closing 50 stores, the likely eventual total, would be enough....
...February Harper Lee, novelist ‘Secret Harper Lee certainly was. There seemed, from what little evidence there was, nothing neurotic about it....
...A Reunion of Ghosts, by Judith Claire Mitchell, Fourth Estate, RRP£14.99/ Harper, RRP$26.99, 400 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Illustration by Simon Pemberton...
...Judith Thurman of The New Yorker writes about Brown, who was the author of “Sex and the Single Girl”....
...A regular contributor to Harper’s magazine and the New Yorker, Bezmozgis was named in 2010 as one of the New Yorker’s top 20 writers under 40....
...No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice By Judith Martin Norton £15.99, 256 pages FT bookshop price: £12.79 Many cities have their passionate admirers, but La Serenissima takes the palm for the...
...Conrad Harper, the only African-American member, had resigned in protest following the women in science comments and after Summers was given a $17,000 pay rise, and said Summers should resign too....
...Judith Moore’s candid, unsentimental account of her own overweight adolescence, Fat Girl (Profile, £12.99), offers little jollity in its bitter list of persecutions, but gives some catharsis through Moore...
...Dave Allen’s divorce from his first wife, Judith, is handled so discreetly by Soutar that the unwary reader will miss it. That he was a “caring” ex-husband is reiterated....
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