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...“This is the Academy Awards of protests and it’s an honour just to be nominated,” says defendant Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins), a line no actor could utter without feeling the pain of the ventriloquist’s dummy...
...Job moves Jeff Weiner, who built LinkedIn into the dominant professional networking site, is stepping aside as chief executive after more than a decade. He will stay on as executive chairman....
...Mark is “plain, the way a girl is plain” with no outstanding features. He finds Karen beautiful and is amazed that she has not noticed. She thinks he is funny. That gives him confidence....
...“I never thought I’d do another interview,” says Mitch, a 62-year-old industrialist, who greets me warmly by a striking Lawrence Weiner wallwork at the entrance of the new building....
...Revenue rose 22 per cent to $336m, while the company’s cash pile increased to $572.8m Chief executive Mark Bristow said the second quarter had been a good one for Randgold, both operationally and on the...
...And Judge Marie S Weiner, the civil litigation judge for San Mateo County, has been more friendly to IPO lawsuits, dismissing a lower proportion of them, making her courtroom a magnet for such cases....
...To mark its 25th anniversary next year, Dag Modern gallery, headquartered in New Delhi, plans to make its mark with a show of around 1,000, mostly 20th-century Indian works from its collection....
...I’ve also seen rafts, disturbingly small cockleshells beached by the high tide mark, that you cannot imagine floating in a swimming pool let alone sailing from Cuba across the Florida straits....
...Does private equity mark to make-believe?...
...“The president’s actions today are shocking,” said Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee....
...But Mark May, an analyst at Citi, says in a note that the price is still 29 per cent below the all-time intraday high it hit back in February 2015....
...may not have been sent or received by Mrs Clinton, the FBI may not yet even actually have access to the emails, and that they were discovered on a laptop shared by disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner...
...In Silicon Valley, we learn how Mark Zuckerberg asked the advice of veteran investor Roger McNamee when he ran into trouble in the early days of Facebook....
...But there is also a delight in seeing the cast and designer (Mark Hinton) negotiate the diminutive music hall stage and the occasional rough-and-ready patch simply adds to the charm....
...To adopt the style of his tweets, which often end with a shocked expression and an exclamation mark — “Unprecedented!”...
...Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn marks the largest acquisition so far of an “algorithmic” company, says Brian Blau, an analyst at Gartner....
...Both measures were in line with analysts’ estimates but the results mark the first time since LinkedIn became a public company in 2011 that it has not exceeded its forecasts....
SurveyMonkey chief executive and husband of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg
...HP’s Meg Whitman, LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were among the 1,700-person throng, as were actor Ben Affleck and movie producer George Lucas....
...In her Delphic manner, she refers to this meaningless mark-making as “real writing”....
...Mark Perry, reader in computer science at Brunel University, says there is a pattern in tech companies’ development, shared by LinkedIn. “Educated higher earners are targeted first....
...Nor is Mr Weiner’s the most egregious case. Earlier this year, Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina, wiped his slate clean when he won election to the US House of Representatives....
...He may be hoping New York voters will be as sympathetic as those in South Carolina – who elected South Carolina governor Mark Sanford in a special congressional election earlier this month after he resigned...
...An interesting claim, given the men he cites (Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford and Elliot Spitzer)....
...was 1969 and Richard Serra splashed 210kg of lead in the foyer, Alighiero Boetti placed concrete pieces on the floor to depict “Me Sunbathing in Turin”, Joseph Beuys installed a “Fat Corner”, Lawrence Weiner...
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