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  • January 1, 2010

    Men in the News: Evan Williams & Biz Stone

    ...Facebook, Mr Stone and co-founder Evan Williams raised $135m last year to prove they...sweeping impact – Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Hardcore computer scientists with vaulting...people are basically good.” Both Mr Williams and Mr Stone are college dropouts...Brought up on a farm in Nebraska, Mr Williams drifted through a number of jobs before...
  • October 30, 2009

    Levon Helm’s new musical life

    ...could it be? Levon Helm’s collaborators Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams and Rodney Crowell If you arrive with those thoughts...the highest tribute one could pay to Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Brian Mitchell and daughter Amy Helm...
  • December 28, 2009

    Debate: who shaped the decade?

    ...Chuanzhi Angelo Mozilo Mo Ibrahim Steve Jobs Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum Lakshmi Mittal Indra Nooyi Larry Page and Sergey Brin Twitter founders – Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams Meg Whitman Ben Bernanke Alan Greenspan Liu Mingkang Nouriel Roubini Jean-Claude Trichet Maria Bartiromo Richard Dawkins...
  • December 29, 2009

    Fifty faces that shaped a decade

    ...was appointed in 2006. Her initiatives have included a push to revitalise PepsiCo's North American drinks business. 29 Larry Page and Sergey Brin Founders, Google Their uncompromising engineering sensibility brought them into conflict withtraditional...naivety and arrogance from rivals but they show no sign of losing their outsized ambition. 30 Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams Founders, Twitter The web-based system for communicating short updates was such a simple idea that it took the founders...
  • June 15, 2009

    Satchel

    Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend By Larry Tye Random House $26, 382 pages It is rare in professional...to give hitters the fits. Former Boston Globe journalist Larry Tye’s biography captures beautifully the man and the legend...confronted him on the informal circuit. Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams rated him highly, as did Dizzy Dean, the best major league...
  • November 8, 2006

    The mid-terms

    ...last lived in the States, but the same faces are still on television, holding forth: Brit Hume, Cokie Roberts, Juan Williams, Larry King, Bob Schieffer, Bill Kristol etc etc. Some of them now seem to have strangely immobile faces, which I take to be...
  • April 12, 2007

    CRITICS' CHOICE

    If nothing else, Jack and Harry Williams have good taste, because their creation, the slightly tiresome sitcom Roman's Empire (BBC2 9.30pm) was clearly conceived...domestic lives for a belated college education. What the show does effectively is to highlight how brilliantly accomplished Larry David and co are because there's scarcely an interesting moment in this opening instalment. Although rather too short...
  • October 22, 2008

    Love, loss and the mourning after

    ...discover some humanity within himself – and it seems that Gervais has forgotten the celebrated motto of two of his heroes, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld: “No hugging. No learning.” The central conceit is neat enough and David Koepp keeps the smart...published on July 7 2005. But this too is, aside from its other flaws, undone by miscasting in the lead role. Michelle Williams is a fine and versatile actor but even she has her limits and is never really convincing as a working-class Londoner struggling...
  • October 23, 2008

    Love, loss and the mourning after

    ...discover some humanity within himself - and it seems that Gervais has forgotten the celebrated motto of two of his heroes, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld: "No hugging. No learning." The central conceit is neat enough and David Koepp keeps the smart...published on July 7 2005. But this too is, aside from its other flaws, undone by miscasting in the lead role. Michelle Williams is a fine and versatile actor but even she has her limits and is never really convincing as a working-class Londoner struggling...
  • March 14, 2009

    When bags of style meet buckets of luck

    ...the US launch. Plans to go live in 2006 morphed into the establishment of a joint venture between Knomo and Clifford and Larry Lein, a former Tumi colleague, and Bobby Williams, who had worked for Hartmann and Lodis, two US luggage brands. For $500,000, the Americans gained 21 per cent of...
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