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...The group bought about 60 songs written by Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill, the duo behind the two Houston smash hits, for between $50mn and $100mn, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Celebrating Silver at Hamiltons, London, until 9 March Inès Cross EAT St John at Fortnum & Mason, London Like a travelling circus, the St John Smithfield team have moved into Fortnum & Mason’s ground...
...Oxford-based author Simon Mason has made a mark with his almost identically named sleuths Ray Wilkins and Ryan Wilkins, the former precise and formal, the latter dishevelled (and now discharged from his...
...Separately, Pinsent Masons’ David Lancaster has joined the firm as an intellectual property litigation partner in London....
...Among the signatories in a petition protesting the ban is Pink Floyd’s drummer, Nick Mason. Mason has heard Waters’ reworking of Dark Side....
...Elancia met resistance in summer 2016, when the founder of La Maison Baldwin, Shannon Cain, a white American writer and activist, squatted in Baldwin’s old house in protest....
...Design enthusiasts are well served by the reproductions of vintage posters used on the London Underground by artists including Man Ray and Edward Bawden....
...Your editorial (“A green ray of hope in surging tech investment”, FT View, December 31) cites PwC’s State of Climate Tech report and says “some 6,000 investors, ranging from venture capital and private equity...
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: Hitting Kerry’s net zero goal needs angel investors / From Professor Colin Mason, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK...
...On receiving an ominous summons to return home, he escapes to an island on the Shannon estuary, where he contemplates his status as an exile, plagued by a resolve to see his family’s faces once again....
...It takes me back to my student days. €2,850, memphis-milano.com The grooming staple I’m never without is a Mason Pearson hairbrush....
...Law firm Pinsent Masons is organising summer drinks for its 900 London-based workers, while colleagues in Leeds and Birmingham will be invited to a summer barbecue and sports day respectively....
...In A Killing in November by Simon Mason (riverrun, £14.99), argumentative working-class detective Ryan Wilkins and Balliol-educated London Nigerian Ray Wilkins enter an unwanted collaboration when a woman...
...And the BBC’s Chris Mason reported on Saturday afternoon they’d hit 100, and as George said by Sunday, his campaign claimed it was 102. Do you believe they ever had those names?...
...The driving force behind the ambitious America/Beautiful project is Min Kwon, a pianist and professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey....
...House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons, by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Oneworld, RRP£18.99, 320 pages Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s story offers a ray of sunshine....
...“It’s almost like an X-ray,” she says. “You don’t know exactly what ailment is going on in your body until you get an X-ray, but once you get one, you can come up with a treatment.”...
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...Instead of looking into her brain with an X-ray, he opens a trapdoor into the mechanical structure of her soul....
...complicated in the US, where the “extraordinarily decentralised” nature of the penal system makes co-ordinated responses more difficult, according to Laurie Robinson, a professor of criminology at George Mason...
...The day we arrived, dramatic autumnal cloud banks were forming into fantastic transfigurations around the peak of Monte Erice, with the sun’s rays splayed out across the bay....
...Pinsent Masons added Hans Jürgen Meyer-Lindemann to its competition, EU & trade group in Düsseldorf. He was formerly a senior partner at Dechert....
...Law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Eran Chvika as a project finance partner in Paris. Chvika joins from Norton Rose Fulbright....
...There’s no place you’d rather be when gravity takes hold of a ray of martini while getting perfumed with Italian lemon zest in plain air....
...Only a small ray of hope was visible in the investment banking business: debt underwriting grew by 2 per cent, balancing a decline of one-third in equities, leaving the unit as a whole down by 10 per cent...
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