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...The notice to regulators comes five weeks after A-Cap’s chief executive, Kenneth King, announced plans to raise up to $400mn of new capital following a credit rating downgrade by AM Best....
...King Lear Wyndham’s Theatre, London “You are old,” characters keep telling Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear — which feels a bit rough as, at 62, he makes for a pretty sprightly monarch....
...For about two minutes last week, I accidentally found myself in the company of Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Salman Rushdie, Han Kang and other stars of the literary world....
...We had the Kenneth Branagh-fronted prestige drama, This England. Next came the fact-based farce Partygate. Then the televised Covid inquiry — and the cameo appearances on GB News....
...A-Cap chief executive Kenneth King late last month told insurance agents that AM Best’s downgrade was unwarranted....
...Former central bank governor Mervyn King used to observe that the probability of forecasts proving correct was almost precisely zero....
...On the last page of Fareed Zakaria’s sweeping new book, Age of Revolutions, he quotes from Civilisation, the classic 1960s BBC series narrated by the art historian Kenneth Clark....
...Marney is determined to incorporate lesser-known work by the greats (“So much history becomes lost,” he said at the relaunch) and kicks off next summer with a revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1972 foursome...
...I hope that I’m not like that,” he said of the domineering Logan Roy....
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...Refusing to serve the new king, or new gods, Enheduana was sent into exile....
...Alison WolfSir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, King’s College London London WC2, UK...
...Stephen King’s various retirements over the years have thankfully proved to be as shortlived as Frank Sinatra’s were — not least because King has conjoined his mastery of the macabre to an equal command...
...On Sunday night, the series’ finale brought our answer, and it was a surprise: Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), the eel-like interloper in the Roy clan, is the improbable new king....
...He deserves the title “blouson king”, but his name is virtually unknown beyond a small circle of initiates permitted to enter his atelier on the Quai de Valmy....
...The painting has been dated to the late 1620s, while Sotheby’s specialists note that its composition has similarities with a portrait of the king painted in 1631-32, in London’s National Gallery....
...This one comes with an introduction by Roy Thomas, who wrote extensively for the company during its formative period and for a time was editor-in-chief....
...The current editors are John Hillier and Roy Lancaster, as expert as anyone could wish....
...Arguably, Connor Roy (played by Alan Ruck) — Logan Roy’s eldest son by his first marriage and the one least interested in the family business — is the Roy sibling with the most comfortable status....
...Made peace with Stanley Gold and Roy Disney. Made peace with Steve Jobs, which led to the acquisition of Pixar....
...Elizabeth I’s entry into London on the eve of her coronation in January 1559 has been described by Roy Strong as the moment of invention for a “walkabout monarch”, the apparently effortless managing of the...
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...With more than 55mn books sold worldwide, Nesbo is unassailably the reigning king of Nordic noir as well as a global crime-writing superstar....
...He made the first after police beat Rodney King in 1991, and they are meant to help process collective sorrow through celebration, and to give armour to the marginalized....
...The agreement includes what is known as a royal clause, which would extend its term limit for decades — “until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of...
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