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...Cin cin From hyperdecanting to biodynamic blends, the FT’s wine expert Jancis Robinson answers readers’ questions, including the ones you might be embarrassed to ask yourself....
...In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Anne Bancroft played Mrs Robinson, the older married woman having an affair with 21-year-old Benjamin, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft was just 35, Hoffman, 29....
...“We need all the possibilities,” says Robinson....
...Writers of fiction have found remote islands useful for exploring issues of race, class, money and people’s fundamental strength of character — right back to Robinson Crusoe and Mutiny on the Bounty....
...Aston Martin has appointed former Jaguar Land Rover executive Kenneth Gregor as its chief financial officer. Read more here....
...Thomas Robinson, president and chief executive of AACSB, says that deans who are former executives can make the syllabus more relevant to business needs....
...Sell: PZ Cussons (PZC) We anticipate the group’s “important transitional year” will not be without its costs, writes Mark Robinson. There’s no point in flogging a dead horse....
...“They’ve taken away the wriggle room,” said Kenneth Jarrett, head of the US Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai....
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...In Lila, Robinson shows us our broken humanity through the eyes of an unwanted child who becomes a woman searching for meaning....
...Robinson is our guide as Kenneth Grahame, the motive force of the evening, and admirable in all things....
...A name came up: Kenneth Robinson, a stock and mortgage broker. The trading suggested the men knew each other but investigators could not prove illegal activity....
...Warnings of over-development are echoed by hoteliers such as Kenneth Gaw, president of Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital, a fund management group, and managing director of Pioneer Global Group, a Gaw family company...
...Assembled from a Heath-Robinson-like medley of cast-off motors, false teeth, wooden prosthetics and assorted scraps of junk, these robots raised two fingers at British Establishment stuffiness....
...The past year has brought more stability to BofA’s upper ranks, with Brian Moynihan succeeding Kenneth Lewis as chief executive at the start of 2010, and to the boardroom....
...The variety is slowly being recognised outside Italy, with plantings dotted around the state of California, notably Seghesio’s Alexander Valley version and Kenneth Volk’s in Paso Robles....
...1999: Rauf Denktash, Turkish Cypriot leader, interviewed by Leyla Boulton: “I tried asking him about his time as a fire-warden during the second world war …‘Chit-chat,’ he says mockingly.” 2004: Kenneth...
...Royal Dutch Shell considered a takeover bid for the UK oil group also boosted the shares, which rose to an intra-day high of 498.05p before closing up 5.5% at 491.37p, helped by positive comments from Kenneth...
...Kenneth Robinson, a former mortgage broker, is co-operating with the US government in its case against Matthew Kluger, a former mergers and acquisitions attorney, and Garrett Bauer, a trader, who were both...
...The FT earlier reported that long-time Merck executive Kenneth Frazier is set to be named new CEO to take over from Richard Clark when he retires next year....
...Bruce Robinson, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service. COMPANION, CB Brian Collins. chief scientific adviser, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills....
...group of troubled US banks paid more than $2bn in bonuses and other payments to their top earners as the financial system teetered in late 2008; yet, nearly 80% of that sum was unmerited, according to Kenneth...
...“There are people who insist that a book is a narrative form that is transhistorical,” says Colin Robinson, co-founder of OR Books....
...Federal prosecutors have accused Kenneth Starr, a Manhattan financial adviser with a celebrity clientele, of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims of more than $30m, reports the FT....
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