Hints and tips:
...Lazard’s global head of restructuring David Kurtz is to join the boutique advisory Hilco Global as vice-chair and chief strategic officer....
...And they definitely didn’t want Al Pacino, a short, unknown Method actor, but they got him; even though their first choice had been Robert Redford....
...Robert Knake, White House director of cyber security policy until earlier this year, said the deal represented a “massive” concession by China because it started to put in place an enforcement mechanism....
...Marcia Jean Kurtz, the touching, acerbic actor who plays Olive, could have made us enjoy the evening were it merely a slice of life in modern-day Manhattan....
...The increase “gets us close enough to the end of China’s late tightening cycle to mitigate a key policy overhang”, says Michael Kurtz, a Hong Kong-based strategist at Macquarie....
...You could as justly argue, and probably should, that Kane is Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz....
...Mr Kurtz has now turned bullish on the Shanghai market. Some valuation measures now support a more positive stance....
...The latest moves are typical of China’s “start small” approach, says Michael Kurtz, China strategist at Macquarie....
...“The PBoC is trying to make the point that there is two-way risk – this is not just a one-way bet,” said Robert Reilly, co-head of Asian fixed income and currencies at Société Générale....
...– Orson Welles’s Heart of Darkness, planned as his first movie before Citizen Kane, and David Lean’s late, long-planned film of Nostromo, scripted by Robert Bolt and Christopher Hampton....
...This is a problem that Robert Twigger has grappled with entertainingly in previous books – most notably Big Snake – but never as well as in Lost Oasis....
...President Robert Mugabe, in a speech at the opening of parliament last week, blamed outside influences, specifically the UK, for “blockading” the country. There are, of course, alternative versions....
...Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post quotes Jay Rosen (who posts his own preview from Newsday) as saying: ”By coming and making news of the event, you’re saying this is important....
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