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...June 15-17, sonar.es Arena di Verona Festival, Italy Few things rival sitting in the evening air inside this vast Roman amphitheatre, and this year there’ll no doubt be a special charge to the experience...
...Timothy wears TH/E cotton shirt, £310, and denim trousers, £400. Jin wears Fendi wool jumper, £750, and wool shorts, £620....
...After that flop, he stuck to his conviction that electrically-assisted personal travel was the future and continued to develop motors for early e-bikes, a sector that has taken off in recent years....
...English Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers FC has parted ways with its managing director, Laurie Dalrymple, after three years in the post....
...Sir Laurie Magnus, chairman of Historic England, the public body that designates listed buildings, believes the Church needs to adopt a more business-like approach....
...In the US, it airs on A&E, Lifetime, and the History Channel as four two-hour episodes, beginning on January 18 Photograph: Laurie Sparham...
...Britain’s once most successful retailer saw finance director Laurie McIlwee resign just a week before its annual results in April....
...Mr Lewis said that severance payments – together worth millions of pounds – to Philip Clarke, ousted as chief executive in July, and Laurie McIlwee, who resigned as finance director in April, were being...
...FRS’s fast ferries from Tarifa to Tangiers take 35 minutes; from €66 return (www.frs.es)....
...He has persuaded several old Apple hands to join him: Laurie Beja Miller, who will manage Town Square; Dan Walker as chief talent officer; Mike Kramer as chief operating officer, and Kristen Blum as chief...
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...The New York Times’ Joe Nocera has spoken to FT Alphaville favourite Laurie Goodman of Amherst Securities Group and is now convinced of the need for principal reductions to clean-up the US mortgage mess....
...The night before, a short solo piano spot set up his festival commission, five compositions for a new octet, the T.D.Es....
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...Bet Calvin Hathaway’s hospital, if his sun-tanned health ever registers a blip, is like Hugh Laurie’s in House MD, all shiny and odourless. Bet his doctor is Hugh Laurie. I want that too....
...But Laurie Goodman over at Amherst Securities brings up another point....
...The default transition rate is that at which previously always performing loans (i.e. never more than a single payment behind) go to two payments behind for the first time....
...Laurie Goodman, from Amherst Securities, is ready to quash it. In a 22-page note the analyst argues that US housing stats are massively distorted by mortgage modification programmes such as Hamp....
...The borrower is paying the Hamp-modified (i.e. lower) first lien amount, and the full second lien amount, so the second lien effectively becomes senior to the first....
...Here’s a bit more detail from Amherst’s mortgage team, led by Laurie Goodman: . . . the less than investment grade securities are, in some cases, no longer eligible investments for the institutions that...
...One wall of screens offers a panoply of videotaped performances by a roster including Miranda Richardson, Laurie Anderson and Natalie Dessay....
...First Amazon signed a trend-setting deal with Sprint to wireless-enable the original Kindle e-book reader – a deal which immediately set the Kindle apart from the competition including Sony’s rival e-book...
...She moves around the bare floorboards of her spacious sixth-floor loft studio in downtown Manhattan like air, doing last-minute chores – e-mails, fielding calls, receiving DHL packages....
...I reckoned his idea of hackneyed equalled the standard definition of an old joke: i.e. something he had heard before. But basically he was right....
...W hen The Annie E. Casey Foundation launched its Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative 15 years ago, it did so in a hostile environment....
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