Hints and tips:
...The firm has made a number of well-timed and well-priced acquisitions like those of Smith Barney and the E*Trade broker network. But it’s also been acquiring brokers team by team....
...UBS Asset Management has appointed Raymond Yin as head of China onshore....
...Retail head Gordon Smith, CFO Marianne Lake, and commercial chief Doug Petno also got $1m rises, to $20m, $13.5m and $12m respectively....
...Today only one (the newly promoted Mr Smith) is still at the bank....
...Some readers have quibbled about the facts of Orwell’s memoir but, as Raymond Williams writes in his 1971 essay for Fontana Modern Masters, this dichotomy between fact and fiction is beside the point....
...Good fiction is good fiction.” ——————————————- Treble indemnity: spot the real Raymond Chandler 1....
...Bernanke and his advisers talked about its language, and his communications aide, Michelle Smith, typed it up back at her office....
...E-mails from Philip Roth, John Updike and Edmund White, among others, sustain her....
...I like to think I played it cool – zen fan – but I gave Butt my e-mail and have never heard from her since. Hmmmm....
...She has only been introduced to the world at large this season as head of internet strategy, six years after launching the brand’s e-store, now the largest Marni retail outlet in the world....
...I bet £500 on you, Smith’s saying it’s Mr Oxbridge golf-crony-son-in-law, so call me back. Better still, get your scabby arse over to the Ivy....
...There wasn’t much reason to imagine this future for Kashmir when Tom Dykes Sr shipped out to India in the mid-1930s....
...Just weeks before I returned last autumn, an e-mail lit up my in-box from one of the city’s most reputed law firms at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, near the FT’s office there....
...The two most significant were Raymond Pettibon and Paul Noble: “They showed that drawing was capable of producing monumental bodies of work that could rival any other medium in terms of scale or ambition...
...Granoff, President and CEO, Pomona Capital Earl Graves, Sr., Chairman and CEO, Earl G....
...However, I have to confess that on the few occasions I have met Bush I have succumbed to his Mr Smith Goes to Washington schtick, the regular- fella-as-president routine....
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