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...Robert Capa’s images from the Spanish civil war and the D-Day landings are some of the best-known photographs ever taken....
...As Mancur Olson argued in The Rise and Decline of Nations, civilisations fall when the moneyed interests capture the system in just this way....
...Olson, who was a managing director at the firm, left earlier this month. Full scoop here....
...He believes that this could go some way towards turning back what Harvard economist Mancur Olson would have called the sellout of politics to moneyed interests, and the subsequent erosion of public trust...
...Robert the Bruce’s computerised humiliation of Edward II’s troops in 1314 is now a rite of passage for most young Scots....
...Theodore Olson, solicitor-general under President George W Bush, turned down an offer from Mr Trump....
...robert.wright@ft.com...
...There he could write and receive visitors — a roster of literary lions such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Eliot, John Berryman and William Carlos Williams....
...Of particular interest are an early self-portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe and a portrait of Dorothy Norman by her mentee, friend and lover Steiglitz....
...Chamberlain’s ways and means were no more impoverished than those of, say, Robert Rauschenberg — whose sculpture series, “Gluts”, was also born out of junk metal....
...He finds these in Shakespeare, naturally, but also in Robert Frost, WH Auden and Richard Wilbur....
...Freeman’s lead lawyer, John Sganga of Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, the California law firm, says the simultaneous timing of the lawsuit and the sale negotiations is “purely coincidental”....
...Just before Justice Roberts spoke, Ted Olson, counsel for the respondent, had conceded that his client was indeed, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor had put it, “asking for an accounting of everything that Argentina...
...When the Supreme Court sat in March to consider the constitutionality of the federal law that defined marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that politicians...
...“Over the last few years there has been a chipping away at campaign financing by John Roberts.”...
...Robert Khuzami, director of enforcement at the SEC, said: “The personal compensation received by CEOs while the companies they serve engage in wrongdoing can be clawed back....
...Mr Jenkins’ lawyer, John Spiegel, of Munger Tolles & Olson, said: “We look forward to demonstrating to the court that the law does not permit such overreaching against an admittedly innocent person.”...
...Also The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño, and Hilaire Belloc’s book The Historic Thames. What book changed your life? Jack Kerouac’s On the Road....
...asked Chief Justice John Roberts....
...Mark Olson, a member of the board of governors, voted against the quarter point increase to 3.75 per cent, instead preferring no change in rates, the Fed’s accompanying statement said....
...With Robert Zoellick, a China expert, moving in the opposite direction – from deputy secretary of state to Goldman Sachs – Mr Paulson could become the leading figure in Sino-US relations....
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