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...She was working in audiobooks when le Carré came into the studio one day to read Smiley’s People; a boozy lunch followed....
...Like Le Carré’s Smiley, Merrick is an anti-Bond: physically unprepossessing, apparently unremarkable, but tenacious....
...Gung-ho Bond and conscience-stricken Smiley alike did their bit for British espionage exceptionalism. However, a gulf divides the real-world records of both men....
...As do debts, gaffes and crimes — such as the execution of three female Stasi officers after one passed intel to the British....
...“I think we get a lot more questions, and all of our peers do, around profitability,” said Josh Smiley, chief operating officer at Zai Lab, a Nasdaq and HKEX-listed company valued at around $4.5bn....
...Like John le Carré’s George Smiley, Merrick’s mild exterior conceals a steely determination....
...There are strong echoes of George Smiley in Merrick’s mild and unprepossessing manner, which disguises a razor-sharp brain and considerable courage when necessary....
...Le Carré, best known for the cold war spy chronicles starring a gnomic intelligence officer, George Smiley, expresses a similarly two-dimensional view....
...He looks like a smiley, tanned Cal Ripken, backslapping his way through the place like he’s the mayor. He eats with us, eager to confer with Gold, who supplied his employees with Ivermectin....
...Smiley, who has been chief financial officer since 2018, will be replaced by Anat Ashkenazi, a senior vice-president who has been controller and chief financial officer of Lilly research laboratories since...
...There is some distance between the Cannery Row of John Steinbeck’s 1945 novel and Slough House, the London headquarters of Mick Herron’s floundering intelligence officers....
...It tells the story of Alec Leamas, an intelligence officer who is finally being called home by The Circus after years living in East Germany....
...From the 1963 The Spy Who Came In From the Cold that launched le Carré’s career to his perhaps most memorable character, George Smiley, the owlish, crumpled spymaster of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which...
...One reason to feel cheated by John le Carré’s death is that we will never know who he was going to conjure as his George Smiley of the Pacific age....
...Josh Smiley, Eli Lilly’s chief financial officer, has been forced to step down after an internal investigation revealed “consensual though inappropriate personal communications” with some employees....
...Meanwhile, Singapore has charged civil activist Jolovan Wham, who held a sign bearing a smiley face, for participating in an illegal public assembly involving only himself....
...The status of Q officers, who were in the past support staff to “fighter pilots”, the human intelligence officers, also has been elevated, a levelling of staff that he welcomes....
...They are incognito police officers rather than self-appointed vigilantes, although there are still some “rich assholes playing dress up” to vex the FBI....
...Unbelievable is based on a real case, where a vulnerable young woman in Lynnwood, Washington was pressured into withdrawing a rape allegation by sceptical police officers....
...His cold war series, featuring the spymaster George Smiley, is also a subtle, engrossing chronicle of postwar Britain and its diminishing international role....
...an intelligent alarm clock that will train children to know what’s the right time to get up — if they wake up too early, it shows rather a stern face; if they wake up when mummy and daddy want, it’s a smiley...
...Alex Younger, the current MI6 chief, even took the unusual step of writing a letter to The Economist, saying he favoured the “quiet courage and integrity” of Le Carré’s central spying character George Smiley...
...The head of MI6, Alex Younger, said he would choose George Smiley over James Bond any time and I reckon this choice of types should have wider application....
...Within this small group Mr May’s role, according to one senior figure in business and politics, is to be “super-supportive and very smiley”....
...Behind the closed doors of British intelligence, the era of Smiley’s People is giving way to a future of Smiley’s Facebook friends....
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