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...Himalaya moved from Wall Street to Pasadena, California, in 2007, in order to be closer to Munger, before settling in the lower-tax Washington state in 2018....
...The merger will be watched by governments as G4S provides critical state services — including the management of prisons in the UK and South Africa, security for 40 US embassies and the Pentagon as well as...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...(FT) Hong Kong government to take stake in Cathay Pacific A state-backed HK$39bn ($5bn) recapitalisation programme will give the government a presence on the airline’s board, raising questions about potential...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Much of it is cheap compared with Good Earth. “People walk out of here with $400 of produce in their carts,” says Al Baylacq, a partner in Good Earth....
...Iran and Russia back the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for him to be ousted and has supported Syrian rebels....
...(FT) IMF split over Greece A stand-off with European authorities over the terms and future of Greece’s bailout has led to a rare public split on the International Monetary Fund’s board, amid growing questions...
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The last time the 72-year-old published so quickly was at the start of his writing life, when his 1963 debut V was followed in 1966 by the novella The Crying of Lot 49, the most accessible of his labyrinthine...
...Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic also weighed in on the culture wars, blogging about the vote in California to strip gay couples of their right to marry, one of a number of state-wide referendums put to voters...
...The directory of moderate arguments was put together, Stone says with no small amount of pride, by “former al-Qaeda guys who now work for me,” because “they know the messages”....
...Entertainment was provided by British comedian Al Murray and a colourful troupe of can-can dancers....
...the like of which, since bleeding partition days, no Indian eye had seen,” wrote Justice V.R....
...Michael V....
...to terrorism, but the Ohio suburbs - well off the al-Qaeda radar - lapped up the strong-man stuff and delivered Bush a second term.)...
...Supreme Court’s historic finding in the case of Rasul et al v....
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