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...“Direct lending has the ability to structure and price out different levels of risk . . . that public markets often don’t,” said Craig Packer, a co-president of Blue Owl Capital....
...Investor Craig Duchossois, a No Labels donor, told the Financial Times he would not give to Trump or Biden but would give even more to Republican congressional candidates....
...“This really is unprecedented: they intercepted them just as they crossed that nine-dash line claim,” said Ray Powell, SeaLight director....
...The flotation of Turkish soda ash producer We Soda was reckoned to be a “ray of light”, but it foundered over valuation....
...Man Ray’s variations evolved over 50 years, Luxembourg notes....
...Congress finally passed bills to fund the government, third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr picked a running mate and Donald Trump introduced a $60 Bible to help fund his campaign....
...The news has been hailed as a “much needed boost” and a “ray of light” for the City amidst an IPO drought and a succession of planned de-listings from the LSE....
...Then I watched a film about True North and its founder, Craig “Craigo” Howson, whose own brother describes him as an “absolute lunatic” and “loose unit”....
...The cast includes Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr and Dave Bautista....
...One ray of sunshine may be spin-offs like September’s Porsche IPO....
...“I saw then that the basis of colour is instability,” she once said in an interview with her fellow colourist Michael Craig-Martin....
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...John Ray III, who took over as FTX chief, said the deal was an “example of our continuing efforts to monetise assets to deliver recoveries to stakeholders”....
...Restructuring specialist John Ray, known for his work on Enron, has taken over the company....
...US architect Craig Steely did exactly that at Musubi House, a home he designed for a pair of artists on the Big Island of Hawaii....
...Collapsed crypto exchange FTX could potentially reopen if its new management can sort through the mess and return money to its customers and creditors, the group’s new chief John Ray III told the Wall Street...
...Nourry prefers to be photographed with objects in front of her face, and will not be drawn on the subject of her partner, the street artist JR....
...In 2004, while he was getting a law degree, he was cast on the NBC reality show The Contender, hosted by Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard....
...In the US, Thomas Tonatiuh Lopez Jr stands up to the oil companies trying to put pipelines across his state, Colorado....
...I first danced with a girl at a school disco that year to the deathless theme tune by Ray Parker Jr....
...Artists involved include blue-chip names like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stephen Shore, Michael Craig-Martin and Rose Wylie; emerging figures such as ceramic artist Katy Stubbs and textile artist Charlotte Edey;...
...Its title pays tribute to the Yoruba story of the 16 rays of sun gifted from lead divinity Olofi to the sky father Obatalá to enable him to take care of earth’s children that he had created....
...US markets were closed today for Martin Luther King Jr Day....
...Among other species in decline, more than a third of shark and ray species are now threatened with extinction....
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