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...Robin Ticciati’s conducting shows how richly layered this music drama is....
...Robin Li, founder of Chinese internet company Baidu, and Daniel Li who runs Chinese carmaker Geely, are due to speak at the event....
...Floral artist and designer Robin Rose Hilleary and designer-carpenter Justin Kabbel have adopted the bold, fun essence of the Margherita to create a Flower table for Fleurotica – a sleeker, glossy piece...
...Natasha Lisitsa came from Kiev and a life on the seventh floor of an apartment block to live in San Francisco with her husband Daniel Schultz....
...Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was supposed to chair the convention, resigned over the emails on Sunday. Today she was greeted by jeering at her first appearance....
...But, says Mr Schultz, junk status ratings “could still make Portugal’s bailout exit more difficult”, creating technical problems for the ECB that he believes “will probably still play a role” in decisions...
...But Mr Schultz said a change in the country’s rating outlook from negative to stable or “even an upgrade could further boost Portugal’s chances” of a clean exit from its rescue programme....
...Additional reporting by Robin Wigglesworth in London...
...Parker, urged on by activist investor Knight Vinke, is cutting the business down to a profitable core in France, Belgium and the Netherlands without waiting for the arrival of new chief executive Regis Schultz...
...American chief executives are weighing into the debate on the US deficit, with Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, urging tax increases for the rich and Howard Schultz of Starbucks telling fellow chief...
...“I thought I should be a Robin Hood – rob the rich and give to the poor,” he laughs. “But then I realised in this country, there is no money. There is nothing to rob. The economy is so small....
...Thomas Schultz-Jagow, Oxfam campaigns director, said: “The chancellor’s proposal for a global bank tax falls well short of a ‘Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions that would raise the hundreds of billions...
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