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...Elliott has organised more than $30bn in buyouts in 2022 alone, while Silver Lake was an architect of Michael Dell’s $67bn takeover of EMC in 2016....
...But they are realistic enough to disagree with de Tocqueville and understand that tax revolts are rarely just about tax....
...The much-garlanded South African novelist’s own experiments in fiction are legion: ranging from the Kafka-esque disorder of Life and Times of Michael K to the allegorical postmodernism of The Childhood of...
...Froman meets Karel De Gucht, EU trade commissioner (to February 18)....
...de Reya’s director of business development....
...Michael Kowalski, Tiffany’s chief executive, told the Financial Times it was ready to repeat an unusual deal struck this year to lend $50m to a mine in Sierra Leone in exchange for the right to buy its rough...
...Did jury president Robert De Niro find a calling echo in the title, so like his and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America?...
...(Around £42; Hamilton Yorke, tel: 01258 820555; in the US contact Michael Skurnik Wines, tel: +1 516 677 9300, www.skurnikwines.com)....
...Henry Brant’s gargantuan orchestration of Charles Ives’ Piano Sonata No 2 is either an act of uncommon reverence or a species of folie de grandeur unique in the annals of American music....
...In the US, from Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton, it has become almost de rigeur....
...The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, by Edmund de Waal, Chatto & Windus RRP£16.99 Ceramic artist de Waal inherited a group of netsuke pieces from his eccentric, well-connected European uncle...
...The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna, Bloomsbury RRP£17.99 Forna’s beautiful novel traces the fates of damaged characters in the wake of Sierra Leone’s civil conflict during the 1990s, as those who would...
...But British suspicion about what France calls l’Europe de la défense remains strong....
...In an interview that Nice gave to Michael Christofferson, the Dutch director of the documentary Milosevic on Trial, he said: “I shouldn’t say this – but it may be better that Milosevic died in the course...
...He then used the funds as collateral for loans to invest in diamonds in Sierra Leone. Both the cash and one person allegedly involved have disappeared....
...The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon Fourth Estate £17.99, 432 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 The author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay has created an alternative universe...
...the UN are trying to prevent a return to civil war in Ivory Coast, which is the world's largest cocoa producer and is key to maintaining peace in troubled surrounding countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone...
...It has had ethnic clashes but nothing to compare to the conflicts that have ravaged the countries to its west - Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone....
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