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...Her English teacher at Sylvia Young thought she would become a novelist. “She was always writing stuff,” Davis says....
...song lyrics that Nobel laureate Ishiguro wrote for the singer Stacey Kent with illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli in a coming together of the world of literature, music and art. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis...
...Former chair Sir Ian Davis was a non-executive at the oil group. Iain Conn, a former head of BP’s downstream division, was also on the board of Rolls-Royce....
...Dino Cusumano, Danny Davis, Zac Carson and Max Holmes had a simple message for the roughly 100 workers gathered at the smelter regarded as the crown jewel of Gupta’s European business: the US buyout firm...
...Frew, who currently chairs Croda, the UK chemicals group, will succeed Sir Ian Davis who leaves the role in October after almost nine years....
...Frew, 63, will join Rolls-Royce on July 1 as non-executive director and will succeed Sir Ian Davis in October. Davis will retire after nearly nine years as chair....
...Dig deeper with this report from DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Mark Vandevelde and the FT’s Sylvia Pfeifer and Anna Gross. Can Hui Ka Yan’s billions spare him from the Evergrande crisis?...
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...Star power has been added with the casting of Geena Davis as lacquered casino manager Sandy Devereaux St Clair. More subtly, the focus has shifted from world-weary director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron)....
...Ian Davis, Rolls-Royce chairman, said the Trent 1000 issues had been “a big distraction” but insisted that the transformation at the group was “non-negotiable”....
...Mr Davis admitted that the company’s “pace of implementation has been uneven”. Nevertheless, “the signs of progress are clear”....
...He describes Sylvia Sidney’s Mrs Verloc “against her will continually picking up the carving knife — to serve the potatoes, to scoop up the cabbage, to kill Mr Verloc”. The cadencing is Trinitarian....
...In this essay, Andrew Wilson, author of books on Patricia Highsmith and Sylvia Plath, explores biographies’ value. (Boundless) I love Prince....
...Reporting by Peggy Hollinger, Richard Milne, Michael Pooler, Sylvia Pfeifer and Ralph Atkins...
...Shearer, as the patient, angelic and wronged Mary, is the star of the picture, although Rosalind Russell steals the show as her gossipy friend Sylvia....
...Many of the NOCs have “become more nimble in the last decade”, agrees Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at UC Davis Graduate School of Management....
...“The key was giving Mick Davis the CEO’s job,” said another shareholder. “That was what was needed to get the deal done.”...
...People familiar with the negotiations said Mr Davis had pushed for a higher valuation for his company....
...In 1976, when Mick Davis arrived as a student at Rhodes University in the eastern Cape, apartheid was at its height....
...Moreover, Mr Glasenberg has accepted a deputy role to Mr Davis....
...Mr Davis would reap millions in shares in the newly merged venture from long-term incentive plans for 2010 and 2011....
...Blunt speaker who built industry giant Mick Davis, the broad-shouldered, blunt-speaking chief executive of Xstrata, is as big a miner as they come, writes Sylvia Pfeifer....
...American Isis : The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, by Carl Rollyson, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 336 pages Fifty years after Sylvia Plath’s suicide, her myth lives on....
...“These documents make it clear – companies like Cairn who, spearheading the new Arctic oil rush, are playing Russian roulette with one of the most important environments in the world,” said Ruth Davis, chief...
...According to Kenny Davis, regional director for Europe and North America for NES Global Talent, specialists are now being hired to fine-tune and constantly monitor emergency response planning and how companies...
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