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...Now read these Mafia arrest: Why the jailing of Messina Denaro — the last living “godfather” — is a serious symbolic blow to the already weakened Sicilian mafia....
...No-one has provided a better window into that side of Biden than Richard Ben Cramer, the late Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote what is widely regarded as his generation’s greatest campaign book, What it Takes...
...KPMG has appointed Massimiliano Messina as its new head of turnaround....
...Instead of rushing off to the White House, he waited for Richard Nixon to visit him at Chequers. Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s secretary of state, called him England’s version of Charles De Gaulle....
...Hudson Bay’s chairman, Richard Baker, has launched a bid to take the retailer behind Saks Fifth Avenue private....
...Bill has a PhD in economics, which he gained at Cambridge under the tutelage of Richard Kahn, one of John Maynard Keynes’ star pupils....
...Intesa chief executive Carlos Messina told the Financial Times the fall in his bank’s stock, and the falls in the share prices of European peers are “only an emotional reaction of the market”....
...Renewables: loser Wind power is “so expensive” and it “kills all your birds”, while the payback for solar power is too long, Mr Trump said on the campaign trail, writes Richard Milne, Nordic Correspondent...
...It’s the right way to attract investors,” says Carlo Messina, chief executive of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s biggest domestic lender. But Mr Barua is cautious....
...“You are seeing back and forth – the two learn from each other, and that is a very healthy thing for both sides,” says Mr Messina, whose Messina Group consulting firm has a Silicon Valley office....
...In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of Tuesday’s elections, Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s 2012 re-election manager who still heads Democratic campaign groups, said winning such states could have locked...
...Intesa CEO Carlo Messina explained the tax charge impact: The bank’s profitability grew significantly in the first six months of the year, despite the strong impact of non-recurring tax....
...Note how CEO Carlo Messina emphasises non-interest income in his revenue targets –o hinting at a bank that aims to be less reliant on traditional lending....
...In a sign of how the once warring Clinton and Obama wings of the party are drawing together, Jim Messina, a former White House deputy chief of staff who ran Mr Obama’s re-election campaign, is taking over...
...Known for his use of data and social media-driven messaging, Mr Messina could be influential in winning over voters and legislators....
...The White House briefly subcontracted the case for Mr Summers to outside activists, led by Jim Messina, a former White House deputy chief of staff and Mr Obama’s 2012 campaign manager....
...Prompted by the letter, the White House backed the formation of an outside team to support Mr Summers’ nomination, including Jim Messina and Stephanie Cutter, from Mr Obama’s re-election team....
...The decision to create OFA, under the leadership of Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, is a sign the president intends to stick with his style, in which constant campaigning is integral to governing...
...Mr Obama’s grassroots machinery, still under the leadership of Jim Messina, the former White House official who also masterminded his re-election, worked brilliantly in the 2012 campaign....
...Mr Messina is clear on one point – the election contains dire messages for Republicans, especially in the way they have alienated minorities....
...Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s campaign manager, said critics of the president’s low-key performance “had made the same complaints” after his speech at the Democratic party’s Charlotte convention....
...Did Mr Messina forget to remind Mr Obama of this before his drowsy performance in the first debate last Wednesday in Denver? Not Likely....
...Mr Wiley’s memo countered an earlier claim from Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s campaign manager, that a record number of what he called “low propensity voters” – people who didn’t usually vote – had already cast...
...Now called Organising for America, it was launched last month under the leadership of Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, as a non-profit body with the ability to take in unlimited donations....
...Mr Obama has a huge new outside organisation to help, retooled from his campaign apparatus by his re-election manager, Jim Messina, and preparing to raise tens of millions of dollars in contributions....
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