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...Epstein asked in return: “[W]hat character would you like next?” to which Staley said “Beauty and the Beast”. Epstein replied: “well one side is available”....
...They proved equally adept at crafting romantic ballads for Alexander O’Neal or ornate gospel-soul numbers for Mariah Carey....
...The Queen Mary became a floating repository of British design, with works by Morris & Co, Poole Pottery, GT Rackstraw and Waring & Gillow....
...LHT edinburghshogmanay.org, 0844 573 8455 Alexander O’Neal, December 26, Ritz, Manchester, then touring Alexander O’Neal was briefly a 1980s soul superstar, selling out Wembley Arena for six nights following...
...O’Brien recounts the story with enormous verve....
...Ryan O’Neal had to find a place at Harvard before he could win the heart of Ms MacGraw in Love Story....
...The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots, by Ian Morris, Profile, RRP£25/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$30 Morris argues that war may bring peace, prosperity and progress....
...The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots, by Ian Morris, Profile, RRP£25/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$30 In this remarkable book, historian Morris argues not only that war is a source...
...Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, former US presidents drafted in by incumbent Barack Obama to help with the aid effort, on Sunday appealed to Americans to donate to the relief efforts....
...Shakespeare in Hamlet said it best: “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown.” The tragedy of George W Bush’s presidency has been felt in every part of America’s identity....
...But Karl Rove, the ex-Bush guru, wanted the Republican candidate to focus on the economy and eschew the egregiously personal (his host, Bill O’Reilly, actually dared to demur)....
...The Arizona senator said nailing down Mr Obama’s tax proposals was like “nailing Jell-O to the wall”. “I’ve got some news, Senator Obama, the news is bad,” he said....
...He pressed the Democratic charge that the Republican would pursue the policies of George W. Bush that had put the US into debt to the tune of $3,000bn....
...Mr Thain, the former Goldman Sachs executive and former head of the New York Stock Exchange who joined Merrill last year after the departure of Stan O’Neal, is almost certain to leave the firm if the BofA...
...Mr Thain replaced Stanley O’Neal who had angered Merrill’s board by, among other things, making an unauthorised merger approach to Wachovia....
...People close to Mr O’Neal say that, until the leak on Wachovia, he had been confident of keeping the board’s support....
...Hank Paulson, former Goldman Sachs chief executive, Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch, and Jimmy Cayne of Bear Stearns were all big Bush fundraisers in 2004....
...It was particularly instructive to reread Neal Gabler’s excellent book on Winchell, the Broadway gossip-monger turned political attack dog whom FDR eventually decided to co-opt behind his Lend-Lease programme...
...But it has no black business leaders of the stature of Kenneth Chenault, chief executive of American Express, Richard Parsons of Time Warner or Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch....
...Stan O’Neal, the sharecropper’s son and CEO of Merrill Lynch, was forced to step down – albeit with a $150m severance package....
...Neal as residents....
...O’Neal’s people say he has nothing to be embarrassed about either (apart, perhaps, from his score) since he was playing with a client....
...We have been talking for a while and O’Neals’ is emptying. I read aloud from the dessert menu....
...She had a list of clients that was the envy of the industry, including Barbara Streisand, Gene Hackman, Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal....
...Yet most Wall Street firms have preferred to concentrate power in the hands of one: John Mack of Morgan Stanley, Jimmy Cayne of Bear Stearns, Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch, and Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers...
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