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...Freshfields, Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy declined to comment....
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton University Press) In a work of remarkable range and quality, Karl Schlögel explores the everyday...
...Allen & Overy said that in London, its policy is an average of up to 40 per cent of time away from the office....
...But the frenzied poaching and bidding up of salaries in recent years won’t help: “We’re coming off a huge high,” says Freddie Lawson, recruiter at Fox Rodney. “It was: ‘can you tie your shoelaces?...
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton) An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy...
...Linklaters and Allen & Overy each pay that group £107,500 a year, before bonuses....
...Freshfields, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Linklaters still have more than 150 lawyers between them in Moscow....
...Partners at Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance received almost £2m each on average....
...recruiter Fox Rodney....
...In November and December, UK “magic circle” firms including Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Clifford Chance said they would pay bonuses at the same level to their US-based lawyers....
...“The salary war within the legal industry is just not winnable for the UK firms,” said Freddie Lawson, a director at recruiter Fox Rodney....
...“The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War” is out now (Allen Lane) Lilah Raptopoulos is the FT’s US head of audience engagement and co-host of the “Culture Call” podcast Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out...
...A Dutch magazine had sent her to Los Angeles to photograph the city after the Rodney King riots....
...@laylimay Photographs: Brian Allen/Voice of America; Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
...Self-effacement can work in American hands — Woody Allen does it, Rodney Dangerfield lived by it — partly because it is so unexpected from an outwardly brash culture....
...Rodney Cook, chief executive, said: “This was a year of extraordinary highs and lows.”...
...The Newman was one of four “leftover” paintings, and was later sold to Paul Allen....
...Knights Bachelor Gerald Acher , for charitable services Rodney Aldridge , chairman, the Aldridge Foundation, for services to young people Charles Allen, for services to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics...
...The bank’s top-ranked teams included the chemicals team led by Timothy Jones and Rodney Whitehead’s retailing group as well as Benjamin Fidler’s aerospace team....
...And it’s not shy of performing in the language of its audience, benefiting here from Rodney Blumer’s excellent translation....
...That elsewhere, is the less hilly north of the island between Castries, the capital, and the wide sweeping, white sandy Rodney Bay....
...Extracted from ‘Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel’ by Michio Kaku, Allen Lane, £20. FT bookshop price: £16...
...Two recent books, John Allen’s Opus Dei and Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason, suggest a possible answer....
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