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...Life and Art 🎧: In the latest episode of the FT’s new twice-weekly culture podcast, gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox shares advice on winter plant tending, indoors and out....
...Barry Weir has been named head of UK, Middle East and Africa M&A, while Robin Rousseau will lead Europe M&A....
...More than two hundred of finance’s finest gathered in Houston Hall, Manhattan, for a grueling slog delightful mix of questions ranging from popular culture, to celebrity esoterica, to, you know, bond yields...
...The FT’s own Robin Wigglesworth tells us how that would work in this FT Magazine feature....
...Additional reporting by Justin Jacobs in Houston...
...Welcome back to Energy Source, brought to you this week from Houston, where we’re at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference....
...Divine Eye brooch by Robin Kranitzky and Kim Overstreet (2005) “Gijs Bakker tells everybody that I have an eye,” says Drutt....
...At a wall on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Houston, someone had scribbled in chalk, Due to lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled....
...Robin Harding investigates the death of the market rentier, a financial whodunnit worthy of Agatha Christie....
...That helps explain how Houston’s Occidental Petroleum attracted a $78bn-plus order book for a recent jumbo bond sale....
...I have recently probably spoken more to our Americas CEO in Houston, Texas, than to the head of our people and organisation business, who is based 600 yards away in Aberdeen....
...Akin Gump today has added Chad Nichols, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, to its corporate practice in Houston....
...Go deeper with this just published piece by the FT’s Laurence Fletcher, Ortenca Aliaj and Robin Wigglesworth....
...It coached students to claim medical disabilities to give them extra time to take entrance tests, and then steered them to test facilities in Houston and Hollywood where it had bribed the staff....
...Mr Bailey introduced Mr Giuliani to Patrick Oxford, the managing partner of Bracewell & Patterson, the Houston-based law firm that counted Enron and other energy heavyweights among its clients....
...More here from the FT’s Ortenca Aliaj and Robin Wigglesworth....
...Additional reporting by Robin Wigglesworth in New York...
...Michael Deem, a professor at Rice University in Houston and Mr He’s former PhD supervisor, is under investigation by his institution over his alleged involvement....
...Reporting by Robin Wigglesworth, Peter Campbell, Robert Wright, Patti Waldmeir and Anna Nicolaou...
...They raised a family that grew to four sons and two daughters, one of whom, Pauline — known as Robin — died in childhood....
...Prince Mohammed is due to visit Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston and New York....
...Floridians had lost power and authorities were still calculating the damage, so far the death toll appeared limited and there was not the widespread disruption to energy or transport infrastructure seen in Houston...
...However, the White House decided against embargoing Venezuela’s oil exports, much of which are shipped for refining in Houston....
...With reporting by Robin Wigglesworth in New York...
...It is the deep bass kick at the start of Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing” and the bounce on Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”....
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