Hints and tips:
...Gold grew up in Hewlett, New York, one of the tony, largely Jewish areas in Long Island known as the Five Towns....
...tony.barber@ft.com...
...TB: “Call me Tony.” LB: “That’s OK, Prime Minister.” TB: (persistent) “Call me Tony . . . I mean, we do know each other.”...
...Prominent Italian historians took Mack Smith to task for his trenchant opinions. Rosario Romeo, Italy’s leading biographer of Cavour, once refused to shake Mack Smith’s hand....
...Denis Mack Smith, the doyen of British historians of modern Italy, wrote in 1997 that Carlo Rosselli was Italy’s “most famous antifascist martyr”....
...On the face of it, another Glencore director has done the decent thing: following the example this week of fellow directors Tony Hayward and John Mack, Glencore non-exec William Macaulay has picked up a...
...Fellow non-executive John Mack appears to have called the low, buying at 81p and as the rebound took hold....
...Tony Hayward, the former BP chief executive, became Glencore’s interim chairman to replace Sir John last month....
...Tony Barber is the Financial Times’ Europe editor tony.barber@ft.com www.ft.com/insidebusiness...
...‘Mack the Knife’ joins Glencore Xstrata board John Mack, nicknamed “Mack the Knife” for slashing costs while boss of Morgan Stanley, this week joined Glencore Xstrata as an independent director....
...In a US government hearing into the breach, Congresswoman Bono Mack described Sony’s response as “half-hearted, half-baked”....
...Will John Mack, chief executive of Morgan Stanley, rendered brilliantly by Tony Shalhoub, tell Matthew Modine’s John Thain, head of Merrill Lynch, where to stick it when he suggests the assembled bankers...
...Tony Barber is the FT’s special projects writer and a former Rome bureau chief...
...Hedge funds, including Brevan Howard, Eton Park and Tudor Investments, were also there, as were bankers led by John Mack, chairman of Morgan Stanley, in which CIC also has a big stake....
...His involvement and strategic insight made an impression, according to Tony James, president of Blackstone....
...“He is also not known as the most patient person in the world,” said Tony Podesta, a veteran Washington lobbyist....
...“The dam is cracking,” agrees Mr Mack....
...Recent capital market turmoil had not affected trading to date, said Tony Mack, Air Partner chairman....
...Tony Tuffariello, who was head of securitised products, is leaving the company. Michael Petrick becomes head of trading....
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Brussels bureau chief and former Rome correspondent The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 By Christopher Duggan Allen Lane £30, 688 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Delizia...
...I met chairman and major shareholder Tony Mack and chief executive David Savile, visited the company’s Gatwick headquarters and attended the AGMs....
...Personally, I’ll take Broadway “dreck” like “Speak Low” over “Mack the Knife” any day. Tel +1 212 239 6200...
...It has also hired Arnab Banerji, formerly senior economic adviser to Tony Blair, the UK prime minister....
...Tony Mack, Air Partner chairman, said that current trading remained strong and advanced bookings were “significantly ahead” of this time last year....
...He’s still smarting from a curiously erratic appearance a few days earlier on America Idol as a last-minute substitute for an under-the-weather Tony Bennett....
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