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...Melbourne International Comedy Festival One of the globe’s biggest comedy festivals takes over Melbourne, as comedians from around the world descend on the Victorian capital, including former doctor Adam Kay...
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...In Lord Hill’s defence, Kay Swinburne, a British Conservative MEP involved in the talks, tweeted: “not easy to learn five years of financial regulation in 10 days.”...
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...We got plenty of the metaphysical poets; Eliots, both George and TS; scads of EM Forster and Joseph Conrad, but so much as mention the possibility of Dickens (with the exception of the mechanically polemical...
...“People losing their jobs are going to struggle,” says Conrad Hills at Norman Broadbent, a City headhunter firm. “Bankers have a poor reputation from an ethical perspective....
...Gillibrand Senator Richard Burr Senator Kay R. Hagan Senator Kent Conrad Senator John Hoeven Senator Sherrod Brown Senator Rob Portman Senator James M....
...Today, the courts must decide whether the rewards of men such as Jeff Skilling, the jailed Enron chief executive, and Conrad Black, the former owner of The Daily Telegraph released from prison last month...
...Kay McCutcheon.”...
...John Kay: Finance spread its own risks but left ours alone If you ask people in the industry to justify recent financial innovations, they will explain that they allow risks to be managed more effectively...
...I have been reading Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon, the least sentimental of Christmas stories....
...john.kay@ft.com Post and read comments at www.ft.com/kay...
...It is not necessary to have the language skills of Joseph Conrad, Isaiah Berlin or Kazuo Ishiguro to order a meal in a restaurant, but international mergers and acquisitions are never likely to be negotiated...
...www.johnkay.com John Kay is an FT columnist and the author of “Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World” (Erasmus Press)....
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