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...Re: Cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels, by Michael Hutchinson, Bloomsbury RRP£16.99/$27 No one is more deeply embedded in the world of Lycra and carbon fibre than Hutchinson — a former racer, record holder...
...Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Festival...
...At IMD in Switzerland, president Dominique Turpin disagrees. “Soon the market is going to be saturated by Moocs, but Moocs are not going to solve everything,” he says....
...“A change of chief executive at this point would likely slow down the restructuring effort, in our view, and possibly push the market to question the future of the plan,” said Emmanuel Turpin, analyst at...
...“Often it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see the opportunity,” says Michael Gaston, an architect with Kann Finch, who worked on the conversion....
...The White Lie, by Adrian Turpin, Short Books, £12.99, 396 pages One hot summer day, Michael Salter, 19-year-old scion of a posh Highland family, disappears....
...On the panel were: Dominique Turpin, IMD President and Nestlé Professor.Prof Turpin has directed customised programmes for companies such as Groupe SEB and Panasonic....
...Back in Europe, however, it is one of Prof Turpin’s predecessors at IMD, Peter Lorange, who is heading a new type of competition – from the for-profit sector....
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...Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Book Festival...
...Child of All Nations By Irmgard KeunTranslated by Michael HofmannPenguin Classics £14.99, 195 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99 Between 1936 and 1938, the German writer Irmgard Keun toured Europe in exile...
...Michael Barrett and Karl Prince of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School won in the category for knowledge, information and communication systems management....
...In the 1930s, Count Laszlo Almasy – the model for Michael Ondaatje’s English patient – claimed to have found the oasis’s location in the Gilf Kebir, a barren plateau the size of Switzerland in Egypt’s western...
...CML director general Michael Coogan commented: ”Everything announced today is helpful, if modest....
...He raised Troy after the marriage to Troy’s mother failed and used to take his young son digging for the mythical cave of Dick Turpin, the 18th-century highwayman....
...“One down, several million to go,” Michael drily concludes. “Failing that, same time, same place next year?”...
...“It is a good marketing ploy,” says Michael Bing, managing director of Sotheby’sOlympia....
...But quite how much artistic licence has been taken can be seen from the former Python Michael Palin’s comments after he watched the show in Paris: “It was quite hard some of the time to work out which sketch...
...“Even in a farming area like this, it seems somehow more shocking than cutting a cow in half and pickling it in formaldehyde,” says Michael McCreath, chairman of Wigtown’s book festival....
...and - making up the subplot - Boris Johnson and his lover Petronella Wyatt, columnist for The Spectator. ”My line about the show is that it is a mixture of Round the Horne, Jerry Springer: The Opera and Michael...
...Michael Milligan, the secretary-general of the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, whose members include Nokia and Motorola, says that his organisation currently contributes "about €30m" for research into health...
...Special attention was given in the Calendar to folk heroes such as Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard - criminals who could be seen as proto-revolutionaries, such as the pseudonymous Captain Swing or King Lud...
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