Hints and tips:
...“If someone was to go out to market [today] with similar ambitions and a similar quality team, I’m not sure they would get funded.” Additional reporting by Madhumita Murgia in San Francisco...
...Inside Facebook, Mr Marcus has a reputation as a “mensch”, according to former colleagues, though he has a prickly side....
...Mensch previously worked in M&A at banks including Evercore and UBS....
...But occasionally I’m capable of great acts of charity.” I hope, for his sake, that this is true. It is easy to dismiss professional trolls as peculiar oddities. But that would be a mistake....
...Stendhal and Grace Kelly: a delightful ménage à trois (I’m French, of course). What’s on your summer reading list?...
...I’m not a supporter of such tactics. It isn’t right for the police to turn their backs to the mayor of New York or to its people....
...I’m inclined to take a rather different view; that with an A-list husband working in the US (rock group manager Peter Mensch) the choice was not between family and Westminster – but rather between living...
...“I’m trying to write it into the DNA of the Tory Party,” he said....
...“I’m rather glad Mensch was elected because I think it will now take a long time to get people to vote Tory again,” says Keith Hardy, another former steelworker out doing his Christmas shopping at TK Maxx...
...You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!’’, the tweet read....
...“I’m trying to write it into the DNA of the Tory party,” he said....
...Alex Pollak, a Macquarie analyst in Australia, did not point at Mr Murdoch, but said before the MPs’ report was published: “I’m not sure News Corp without the senior management who are behind all this is...
...Additionally, since I was in my twenties, I’m sure it was not the only incident of the kind; we all do idiotic things when young....
...He began to draw himself – alarming self-therapeutic narrations of rape and murder – got a job with Topps Bubble Gum and then finally took on “the hardest thing I’m capable of doing to placate the hanging...
...“It’s the downside of a family business,” he says at one point: “Anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.”...
...If Mr Berlusconi is the patron saint of politics as a show (even though he has said, with trademark modesty: “I’m no saint”), the movement also has its Machiavelli....
...He is also a mensch....
...I’m pleased about that. We’ve made good progress.”...
...As I described him, his friends describe him as having this Nietzschean, uber-mensch mentality. So for him not to talk to me, I thought, was perfectly in character....
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