Hints and tips:
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...House armed services chair Mike Rogers told the FT he would support Scalise. “I think he’s the guy who can unify us and get the votes that we need,” Rogers said....
...If work is life, and studio is home, you’d struggle to anticipate the mockery....
...Fox News has lost big names in the past, notably presenter Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes, the former network chair who was ousted in the wake of sexual abuse allegations in 2016....
...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is La Vie Mode d’Emploi by Georges Perec. I first tried to read it when I was at school but I couldn’t keep up with it....
...It’s the opposite of what you’d do if you want growth.”...
...they’d ask me. “How can they charge so little compared with everywhere else in London?”...
...Davis Polk has poached M&A partner Thomas Malone and finance partner David Penna from Latham & Watkins. They are based in New York and Washington, respectively....
...Separate walkouts will happen at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust in south London and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust after Unite union members rejected their latest pay offer....
...It’d be really messy. Messy indeed. (Ethan Wu) One good read How is China going to pay off all its debt? Stiffing street sweepers, for one....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Developed by creative director Paola Antonelli, curator and director of R&D at MoMA, the symposium was titled “Agency for the Future: Design and the Quest for a Better World”....
...There was a very strong, large man, Roger, who found a lithographic press....
...Kramer and I make our way to the ballroom, where Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone is posing for photos with fans near the entrance....
...D, this person said, struck them as “just another white jock at Yale”....
...Coming to live in the city in 2015, I thought I’d spend every other weekend there, only to discover it was shut for repairs....
...Roger Madelin was at King’s Cross developer Argent from 1989 to 2016, becoming chief executive in 1997....
...Sometimes even chefs (think The River Café’s Ruth Rogers or Margot Henderson at Rochelle Canteen, shaping stature with their table placements and the events they might cater)....
...Raghuram Rajan, winner in 2010 for Fault Lines, and shortlisted in 2019 for The Third Pillar, suggested Titan: The Life of John D....
...All Thomas Gottstein wanted was a “clean slate”....
...“I’d not be very comfortable if we had balances” at one of the banks caught up in the scandal, said the head of a large Europe-based hedge fund firm....
...Thomas Dyja’s book New York, New York, New York offers this summary of its recent history: “Forty years that favoured wealth and business.”...
...Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas...
...“But now the troubles are over and people need to return,” says Róger Gurdián Vigil, the mayor of León....
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