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...One thing to start: German sandal maker Birkenstock is seeking a valuation of more than $8bn from an initial public offering, as its private equity owner L Catterton unveiled its filing for a stock market...
...“We shouldn’t give up on DB because the average duration is still 15 years,” says Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G....
...While not an Oxford Tory, Kuper is an Oxonian who went to that university at roughly the same time as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan, Dominic Cummings and Jacob Rees-Mogg, all notable student...
...Spurrier, second son of Pamela and John Spurrier, who worked for the family company Hilton Gravel, was born in Cambridge on October 5 1941....
...Details Pamela Goodman was a guest of Abercrombie & Kent, which offers trips throughout the country....
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s defence of Dominic Cummings has provoked a furious backlash. Attempts to justify a 264-mile lockdown trip have failed to silence calls for the top aide’s resignation....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...But Mr Cummings said Democrats had to be careful over their approach....
...Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming will be in the same space just before them in a new staging of Beckett’s mordant existentialist classic Endgame (Old Vic from January 27)....
...“Mr Cummings is busily briefing the press over the past few days about how he’s going to run the government, but he still hasn’t given any clear direction.”...
...In January, Mr Cummings will take over as chair of the House Oversight Committee....
...That means that investors may buy a share in, say, L’Oréal in either France or the UK, depending on where the best prices and liquidity are....
...When I joined Aifa it was kind of moribund and I was responsible for changing its business model, giving it a new P & L, reconnecting it to its membership and delivering quite a lot of organisational change...
...Scientific studies of herbal tea are thin on the ground, though several suggest that L-theanine, an amino acid found in green tea, can alleviate stress and anxiety....
...She spent a three-week residency at collector Pamela Joyner’s Sonoma, California, estate doing just that. “I was a little nerve-racked,” she admits....
...One shareholder, Aviva's David Cumming, came out on Monday to publicly voice his support for Melrose. Natixis gobbles up more M&A boutiques Natixis is on an M&A roll....
...Details Pamela Goodman travelled as a guest of Corsican Places (01489 866 931; corsica.co.uk)....
...Team Dimension Data rider Stephen Cummings of Britain wins, on 162.5 km Stage 7 from L’Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, of the Tour de France on Friday...
...Once he understood the bankruptcy landscape, he put together a bid for a part of the collection — about 4,500 photographs — that had been held under contract at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...And Garratt is far from the first to be captivated by them: author L Frank Baum borrowed their eerie charm for the character of the Scarecrow in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while crucified scarecrows appeared...
...et l’époque nègre de quelques artistes contemporains....
...Under the title Body Language, the first such discussion brings together women artists Joan Jonas, Pamela Rosenkranz and Camille Norment to debate gender politics in relation to their art....
...Pamela White, the US ambassador to Haiti, who many see as supportive of Mr Martelly, says: “I spent every weekend, day and night from very early till midnight talking to parliamentarians to vote for the...
...A book of John F Kennedy portraits (£1,500-£2,000) is dedicated to the duchess by the former US president with the sign-off “L.O”, a sly reference to the sisters’ habit of calling him “Loved One”....
...Association; and Nicolas Hazard, president of Le Comptoir de l’Innovation....
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