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...This is the idea that historical events are largely driven by the skill, charisma and power of exceptional individuals such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon and, perhaps, Uber’s Travis Kalanick....
...Be sure to read Lex, which compares Sorrell to a modern-day Napoleon (forced into exile but likely to come back)....
...“We must be like the Russians defending Moscow against Napoleon, ready to scorch the earth to stay ahead of the invaders. We must be Sony United and fight like the Sony warriors we are,” he says....
...Just ask Napoleon. Now, Danish beer peddler Carlsberg is learning that even the country’s beverages market is tough to conquer: it has had to close two breweries because of falling demand....
...The battered boards list name after name of Victorian explorers who left Britain to chart unmapped wildernesses and turn the map pink — Baker, Burke, Fitzroy, Ross, Stanley, Thompson and dozens of others...
...Every young scientist carries a Nobel Prize in his or her rucksack, writes Gilbert Thompson, paraphrasing Napoleon. It is a motivating force in the world of research....
...The Further Tale Of Peter Rabbit, by Emma Thompson, Frederick Warne, RRP£12.99 Actor and screenwriter Thompson turns in a very creditable pastiche starring Beatrix Potter’s best-loved character....
...As legend has it, Nathan – on receiving news of Napoleon’s defeat before the British government – caused market panic by short selling stocks before buying them back for a song....
...Christopher Thompson is an FT UK companies reporter and Anthony Deutsch is Jakarta correspondent ………………………………………….....
...“Poor Wayfaring Stranger” is driven by Danny Thompson’s swinging double bass. Elsewhere a Ukelele Lady rubs shoulders with Longfellow and Napoleon....
...Ralph Steadman Ralph Steadman (b1936), used barely controlled blots and splats to create the searing visual equivalent of colleague Hunter S Thompson’s “gonzo” writing....
.... £1,500 ($2,400). www.tennants.co.uk v Armchair Jacob Frères Patronised by the Emperor Napoleon and promoted by the innovative designers Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine, the French Empire style that...
...Napoleon knew the difference between victory and defeat in war. He said it was “Three parts moral. One part physical”....
...Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-99 By Philip Dwyer Bloomsbury £20, 672 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Australian academic Dwyer’s first instalment of his gargantuan new biography of the diminutive French...
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