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January 23, 2010
Bernanke under pressure
...critical of the Fed's management of the financial crisis, moved against him, adding to a list of proclaimed no votes. Barbara Boxer, Democratic senator from California, and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, said that they would oppose Mr Bernanke in a... By Tom Braithwaite in Washington and Patrick Jenkins in,London
January 22, 2010
Bernanke under pressure
...s management of the financial crisis, moved against him, adding to a list of proclaimed no votes. Democratic senators Barbara Boxer from California and Russ Feingold from Wisconsin, said that they would oppose Mr Bernanke in a vote that has been promised... By Tom Braithwaite in Washington and Patrick Jenkins in London
August 28, 2009
Swashbuckling geologist who mined a sparkling seam
...was fatally speared and bled to death in the arms of his son. He was 71. Though white and British – his Scottish mother Barbara returned to London to give birth on August 25 1937 – Campbell Rodney Bridges was essentially a son of Africa, where he lived...Capitalising on the locals’ fears and superstitions about snakes, the couple kept a pet python, which they called Patrick, in their treehouse to protect their gems when they were away. Bridges, unarmed, was travelling on a remote dirt road... By Phil Davison
September 5, 2009
A mature nose for investment
...years after planting] generally to be fully mature,” I was told by AltaTech’s head of grape sales and leasing, Patrick Mahaney. The fact that Mahaney and his colleague Richard Sowalsky, head of “vineyard and wine design”, had distinguished...in development” but none producing as yet, while in California the company has 260 acres in Sta Rita Hills in Santa Barbara county, five vineyards in Sonoma, three in Mendocino and five Napa Valley sites already planted, all clustered round the... By Jancis Robinson
November 2, 2009
Heating up
...change deal. “There are so many Democrats from energy-producing states who are just not going to vote for it,” says Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute, a free-market think-tank. “What legislator wouldn’t like to wash their hands of this, given the negative reaction of their communities to cap and trade?” Still, Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts pressed ahead last week with their bill for a cap-and-trade system... By Fiona Harvey
November 3, 2009
Heating up
...change deal. "There are so many Democrats from energy-producing states who are just not going to vote for it," says Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute, a free-market think-tank. "What legislator wouldn't like to wash their hands of this, given the negative reaction of their communities to cap and trade?" Still, Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts pressed ahead last week with their bill for a cap-and-trade system... By Fiona Harvey
May 11, 2009
School profile: University of Miami
...programmes, for some schools the crisis could bring in business. At the University of Miami school of business in the US, dean Barbara Kahn is optimistic. “Given the economy, it might just be good for us, not bad.” The school is a niche player in executive...to use her contacts at the top US school to build the school’s network in other areas. In March the school announced Patrick Harker, former dean at Wharton and now president of the University of Delaware, and Jonathan Spector, former vice dean... By Della Bradshaw
March 7, 2009
Rust Sleeps:Can We Glimpse An American Future In The Travails Of Detroit?
...from both sides. California eco-Democrats ("Dianne and Barbara" in the arch shorthand of one Michigan industry consultant...In February, desperate for good-news stories, I called Patrick Crouch, who heads the Earthworks Urban Farm garden programme... By John Reed
March 6, 2009
The travails of Detroit
...from both sides. California eco-Democrats (“Dianne and Barbara” in the arch shorthand of one Michigan industry consultant) castigated them for forcing...In February, desperate for good-news stories, I called Patrick Crouch, who heads the Earthworks Urban Farm garden programme... By John Reed
April 17, 2009
Lunch with the FT: David Hockney
...Azur. The St Ives School (1939-60s). At the start of the second world war, Ben Nicholson and his wife, sculptor Barbara Hepworth, moved to west Cornwall to establish an avant-garde art colony that came to include most leading names in mid-century British abstraction: Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron. Nicholson and Hepworth later separated; he left St Ives in 1958; she was killed in a fire in her studio there in... By Jackie Wullschlager