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...Take a practice test earlyPractise using official Graduate Management Admission Council materials — particularly mock exams — to familiarise yourself with the GMAT and identify strengths and gaps, says Léon...
...Some of the world’s largest companies are now trying to figure out what consumers like Ms Clarke will do next....
...He won an assisted place at a private school before studying law at Cambridge — part of the “Cambridge Mafia” that dominated Tory politics in the late 20th century, its leading members including Leon Brittan...
...Listen to the FT’s fortnightly culture podcast ‘Everything Else’ for lively discussion and star guests, including Jude Law, Sally Rooney, Nish Kumar, Kate Tempest and John Cooper Clarke...
...“The locomotive of war” is repurposed from a speech Leon Trotsky gave in 1922, during which he referred to conflict as a “locomotive of history”, identifying the Great War as crucial to the Bolshevik Revolution...
...His Brussels experience began as chief of staff to Leon Brittan, the late EU commissioner who was overseeing the bloc’s trade policy through the late-1990s....
...But he is not a heavyweight in the mould of Peter Mandelson or Leon Brittan. The reshuffle also sees prominent pro-Europeans such as Kenneth Clarke, Damian Green and David Willetts leaving office....
...As Leon Trotsky once said: “You may not be interested in this war. But this war is interested in you.”...
...The US and Nato will end combat operations in Afghanistan next year and move to providing training for Afghan forces, Leon Panetta, US defence secretary, has said....
...The Peacock Cloak , by Chris Beckett, NewCon Press RRP£10.99, 240 pages A stunning short story collection from the winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award (for last year’s Dark Eden )....
...Second, he served his apprenticeship with Leon Brittan in Brussels: a senior figure in that cabinet, but a member of the team....
...He really deserves to join the list of Cambridge Mafioso, which includes Clarke, Howard, Norman Lamont, Norman Fowler, John Gummer and Leon Brittan....
...“The authenticity and price of the Burro were really great [for us],” says Humberto Leon, co-owner of Opening Ceremony. “Plus, we are huge fans of heritage brands.”...
...“This was a cakewalk in terms of special operations,” says Mr Clarke....
...Charles Clarke, former home secretary, says: “Cathy is a bit surprised and so is everyone else.” Ashton says: “Judge me by what I do and I think you’ll be pleased and proud of me.”...
...Bragg launched the concert with Leon Rosselson’s Digger manifesto, “World Turned Upside Down”....
...by Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and an eccentric German pasticheur, Hans Henning von Voigt, known as Alastair – each launched his career in London – as well as the frenzied eastern costumes dreamt up by Leon...
...High profile supporters include David Willetts, the shadow trade and industry spokesman , who had been expected to back Kenneth Clarke and Andrew Mackay, Conservative deputy chairman, who backed Mr Clarke...
...He was a member of the so-called “Cambridge mafia” of future Conservative stars such as Michael Howard, John Gummer, Leon Brittan and Norman Lamont....
...It took him 16 years to enter parliament, which he did eventually as MP for Folkestone in 1983, after many of his Cambridge contemporaries (Kenneth Clarke, Norman Lamont, Norman Fowler, Leon Brittan, John...
...Carved-to-order Cecina, air-dried and gently smoked beef produced by Ferju in Castilla Leon, is splendid, a sophisticated alternative to ham, served with pine nuts, Parmesan and a good slug of olive oil...
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