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...UBS’s Blair Effron founded Centerview Partners in 2006 with Wall Street veteran Robert Pruzan: it ranked third for M&A advisory fees in the first quarter of last year....
...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
...Robert Morgenthau, then midway through a 35-year stint as the city’s lead criminal prosecutor, was on television constantly....
...His name was Vern Underwood Sr, and I’m on the phone with his son. “You’ve given me a tough assignment,” Vern Underwood Jr says when I ask how Americans originally bought in. Underwood Jr is now 83....
...“My goal is to complete decisions about charging before I leave and I’m very comfortable with the team that’s on the case — I chose the team,” he insists....
...There is another towering figure in Mr Vance’s life: his father, Cyrus Vance Sr, who served as president Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state from 1977 to 1980, among other top Washington posts....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Help — I’m stuck in a stay or switch paradox / From Robert Saunders, Balcombe, W Sussex, UK...
...2010 and 1.3% cuts at SR 2015....
...Just over a week previously, a man in Ohio recorded a video of himself murdering 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr and then posted it on to Facebook....
...He drops a lot of rock names along the way — from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath....
...Photographs: Ben Roberts; Getty...
...The Brown family had called for the federal autopsy and investigation and has said they have no faith in the state investigation being conducted by St Louis County Police or in Robert McCulloch, St Louis...
...More evidence is emerging in the case against Ross Ulbricht, the alleged criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road illicit goods digital marketplace and keeper of the Dread Pirate Roberts pseudonym....
...Before that his wrangly Republicanism antagonised both Nixon and George Bush Sr, who allegedly elbowed him off the vice-presidency ticket with Reagan....
...Dos Santos Sr appointed as head of the armed forces a former Unita commander....
...In 1968, Romney Sr was briefly favoured to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election....
...Director Jim Loach (son of Ken) and screenwriter Rona Munro (of Loach Sr’s Ladybird Ladybird) pick the worst of all storytelling options. They could have made a feature documentary....
...Bush congratulates himself on finding Gen Petraeus and his successor General Raymond Odierno, as well as Robert Gates, the successor to Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary....
...Dave Applegate, Sr....
...“I’m in the same business so you can be direct....
...We resume between tasty mouthfuls: he says the uniformed military see Robert Gates, Rumsfeld’s successor, as a “breath of fresh air”....
...PW retained the firm of Williams & Connolly (Robert Barnett / RB) to represent him in the negotiation . 3....
...Kennedy received a ballot paper in 1962 when Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr, the distinguished historian, polled historians and political scientists to rank American presidents from “great” to “failure”....
...In Lunar Park, Mr Ellis Sr’s dead body “was found naked by the 22-year-old girlfriend on the bathroom floor of his empty house in Newport Beach”....
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