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  • February 6, 2010

    Writer who cast a generous eye over the mean streets

    It is hard to believe that Robert B. Parker was not Spenser, the hard...novel that Chandler had left behind.Robert Brown Parker was born into a working...on September 17 1932, attended Colby College in Maine, served in the army in Korea...also from modest background but goes to college, acquires literary tastes and serves...working with him, and Chollo and Vinnie Morris, the expert guns for hire; and there...
  • February 5, 2010

    A generous view of the mean streets

    It is hard to believe that Robert B. Parker was not Spenser, the hard...novel that Chandler had left behind.Robert Brown Parker was born into a working-class...on September 17 1932, attended Colby College in Maine, served in the army in Korea...also from modest background but goes to college, acquires literary tastes and serves...working with him, and Chollo and Vinnie Morris, the expert guns for hire; and there...
  • November 28, 2009

    Books of the year

    ...genetics professor at University College, London, draws out...Capitalism By George Akerlof and Robert Shiller...The Return of the Master By Robert Skidelsky Allen...Compiled by Harry Eyres < Jan Morris A book that marvellously impressed...a notorious hellraiser (Robert Mitchum) spellbinding in the...
  • November 9, 2007

    Man in the news: Robert Rubin

    Dusk falls on Park Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday and Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary and new chairman of Citigroup, sits in his comfortable office stuffed with the...autobiography, In an Uncertain World. “He enjoys problem-solving and thinking through issues and he does that in a college seminar kind of way. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from him about all kinds of things.” “Unlike many former...Mr Rubin’s ascent to the top of the US establishment was achieved within two generations. His paternal grandfather Morris Rubin was a Russian Jewish émigré who brought up his family first in Brooklyn and then Miami. He made and lost a fortune...
  • November 10, 2007

    Citigroup's enigmatic sage

    Dusk falls on Park Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday and Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary and new chairman of Citigroup, sits in his comfortable office stuffed with the...autobiography, In an Uncertain World . "He enjoys problem-solving and thinking through issues and he does that in a college seminar kind of way. I learnt a tremendous amount from him about all kinds of things." "Unlike many former high government...Mr Rubin's ascent to the top of the US establishment was achieved within two generations. His paternal grandfather Morris Rubin was a Russian Jewish émigré who brought up his family first in Brooklyn and then Miami. He made and lost a fortune...
  • October 28, 2005

    War of words

    When the Israeli mathematician Robert Aumann shared the Nobel economics prize...Centre for Israeli Studies at University College London. He has provided occasional unconscious...miracles can’t happen.” Harvey Morris is the FT’s Jerusalem bureau chief...
  • June 16, 2007

    Knights Bachelor

    ...of Sociology and Medicine, King's College London. For services to medical research...Clinical Excellence. For services to NHS. Robert Braithwaite, chief executive, Sunseeker...For services to financial services. Robert Niven, chief executive, Disability...pharmaceutical Industry and Asian community. Robert Malcolm Armour, company secretary and...services to drama. Geoffrey Charles Morris, formerly chair, Association of British...
  • August 4, 2007

    The first cut

    ...began performing circumcision, says Robert Darby, a medical historian whose book...circumcision," the Royal Australasian College of Physicians says, although it adds...can tend toward the vitriolic. Brian Morris, a scientist from Sydney, Australia...lot of people with their nonsense." Morris says he has the backing of many eminent...uncut men. But when circumcision critic Robert van Howe, of Michigan State University...
  • November 17, 2007

    Prints of time

    ...19th-century botanical watercolours to several of William Morris’s wallpapers via Edward Lear’s bird drawings and 19th-century...Sir Edwin Lutyens, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Robert Adam, “every single one of them paid particular time and attention...by the idea to approach the archive directors at his old college instead. The next few months were spent trawling through the...and based on a funky 1961 après ski jacket made by two college alumni sits harmoniously next to “Dazzle”, a rich...
  • February 26, 2005

    Inspiring textiles

    ...Horticultural Society's archives, while Morris & Co's fabrics draw on Pre-Raphaelite...s work but, because I went to art college and constantly visit galleries, I...designed by Pugin, Voysey, William Morris, Walter Crane, Graham Sutherland...artists who taught at London's Royal College of Art in the 1950s and 1960s including...bold graphics of her designs. There is Robert Motherwell, whose "thoughtfulness...
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