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...In reality, there was only ever one suspected murder on the Orient Express (in 1950 the body of Eugene Karpe, a US naval attaché in Bucharest, was found lying by the line near Salzburg), but there was plenty...
...Increasing barriers to achieving financial security have led a younger generation of investors to say, “F@$K it”....
...South Korea, meanwhile, has a Korean New Deal, or “K-New Deal” backed by a US$135bn investment programme that includes measures to create 659,000 new green jobs by 2025....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A...
...I look at Thomas to see if he has an idea to start off anything, and if it doesn’t look like he does, or if I have a good one, I’ll come in....
...Willkie Farr & Gallagher hired a team of attorneys from Jenner & Block led by Craig Martin to establish a new Chicago office....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
...Davis, who has more than two decades experience in M&A, joins from K&L Gates....
...The Euro and the Battle of Ideas, by Markus K Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 Many economists consider the eurozone a bad idea, because its economies...
...One of Mr Vielma’s jobs at Universal was as a rides attendant for the theme park’s Harry Potter attractions, his Facebook page says. J.K....
...After a broadside against latter-day Keynesians by David K. Levine, the Keynesians strike back....
...Atlas, ‘Reconstructing London: Visions of the City after WWII’, Ernst Haas, May 23-July 4, atlasgallery.com Barbican, ‘Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector’, Hanne Darboven, Sol LeWitt, Martin...
...It sometimes felt as if the unsettling image of the robot was being made to stand for a host of other trends that worry us: rising inequality, for example, which a year on from Thomas Piketty’s Capital in...
...Executive, Ataxia Telangiectasia Society Sue Millman Chief Executive, Ataxia UK Jon Spiers Chief Executive, Autistica Dr Edward Hodgkin Chief Executive, Autolus Roy Sutcliffe General Manager, B&K...
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...Thomas Piketty's analysis of inequality was the must-read tome for the political classes this year, but arguably more read it than understood it....
...Maugham, Jerome K Jerome and Thomas Hardy....
...johnkay@johnkay.com ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: ‘Right’ in the sense of ‘best we can do’ / From Mr Martin Slater We are all worse off because of EMH / From Mr David K Richards...
...Not surprisingly, Thomas Rowlandson, the Regency caricaturist who specialised in tumbling pratfalls and amorous romps, registered with a bolting hand, is a favourite....
...Is Järvi a “first-rate conductor of second-rate music”, a jibe often tilted at the legendary Sir Thomas Beecham? Like Beecham, he follows his enthusiasms....
...McGovern represented a strain of prairie populism long vibrant on the US farmbelt that produced such distinctive politicians as Robert LaFollette, Henry Wallace, Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, all...
...Money: The Unauthorised Biography, by Felix Martin, Bodley Head, RRP£20 Economists have long been dangerously wrong about the nature of money, says Martin....
...Eugene Robinson, a columnist for the Washington Post, recalled attending a function at the start of Barack Obama’s first term, “an only-in-Washington” affair at a stately mansion, with Secret Service SUVs...
...Pierre Koffmann did brilliantly in a tent on Selfridges’ roof three years ago, but Thomas Keller did not fare so well at Harrods last autumn. This is a high-risk enterprise....
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