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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...Not so in 2023: reports of Becker’s words leaked into the internet, fuelling a stampede. In a few hours, some $42bn — or a quarter of SVB’s funds — departed....
...The book’s structure is in some ways reminiscent of Common Ground, J Anthony Lukas’ groundbreaking tale of the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s....
...Julia Becker, chair of the supervisory board of the newspaper publishing group Funke Media, wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that they had “hit the heart of our industry”....
...The rescue has parallels to the Panic of 1907, when J Pierpont Morgan locked a group of bank chieftains in his library until they could uncover a bank rescue plan after the failure of Knickerbocker Trust...
...But in the 1990s he returned to the screen, notably as the bed-bound author who is terrorised by Kathy Bates in Misery (1990)....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...J, mainland China’s first homegrown jewellery artist and the first to appear on an international auction platform....
...While new Shanghai-based designer Feng J creates high-jewellery brooches for a younger clientele: her massive, undulating watercolour-hued ginkgo-leaf brooch is made light with a floating setting technique...
...“It was such a part of who she was,” says Becker. Harris seems poised to become a pearl influencer of another sort....
...Complaint | Dismissal Name: Donald J. Trump et al v....
.../ From J Paul Horne, Alexandria, VA, US...
...In March, Gavin de Becker, Mr Bezos’s security consultant, alleged that “our investigators” had concluded “with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’s phone, and gained private information...
...tim.harford@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Economics must be open to tools from other fields / From Ramki Muthukrishnan, New Providence, NJ, US For Keynes, Marshall was the master economist / From J...
...Kathy Segos from Indiana describes how their decisions have dictated her life....
...J Smith-Cameron, a lower Manhattan resident who voted for Ms Nixon, whom she knows personally, said could see why people would not trust a celebrity....
...Blue J Legal, a Toronto-based business, mines Canadian court rulings on tax and employment....
...played with ferocious intensity by John Douglas Thompson, disowns his son Booster (Brandon J Dirden), who has just emerged from decades in prison for murdering his girlfriend....
...Return, by Aaron Becker, Walker Books, RRP£12.99 Concluding the trilogy begun in Journey and continued in Quest, Return is narrative reduced to its essentials....
...For example, one business under the Thinkers umbrella is Purple Cow Productions, which is a music company run by Kathy Heslop....
...The author, of course, was Gary Becker. ——————————————- To join Tim Harford in conversation with ‘Freakonomics’ authors Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner on May 27 as part of the FT Weekend Interview...
...The insurer, founded in 1886 as the North Queensland Insurance Company, announced that Marty Becker, non-executive director and former chief executive of Alterra Capital, would succeed Belinda Hutchinson...
...European Commission is a shadow of its former self, hiding behind the UK and other backward-looking member states and lobbies,” said the chief executive of the European Wind Energy Association, Thomas Becker...
...Mr Hansen, a co-founder of the Becker Friedman Institute also at the University of Chicago, designed methods to explore the drivers of stock market volatility....
...Have you heard of Jason Becker?...
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