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...Olivia Colman is primly Christian, high-toned Edith Swan, the Littlehampton-dwelling recipient of the titular missives....
...Blair, a Warhol muse and one of Truman Capote’s swans, hosted fundraisers as successful as they were stylish. Among her circle were Hubert de Givenchy, Cecil Beaton and Helmut Newton....
...When the third meeting came around, she arrived at his town house on Swan Walk towards 8pm. Odey answered the door himself....
...In September, he appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court to plead not guilty to the charge, which relates to an alleged incident at his home address in Swan Walk, Chelsea, in July 1998....
...“When that black swan swoops in and changes the whole world overnight, all you have left is your people. Businesses cannot function without them.”...
...BakerHostetler has hired Timothy Swan as a partner in the law firm’s Cincinnati office. Swan was formerly of Frost Brown Todd and a partner at law firm Sidley Austin....
...Chief executive Bob Swan added that recent discussions with customers had revealed a number of negative trends, with the cooling in demand for data centre chips likely to be “more pronounced than we expected...
...Swan has accomplished for Intel in driving improved profitability and an expectation of continued focus on execution....
...With its talk of pink blancmange and Swan Vestas, Albert Herring should feel dated, but it is as delightful as the day it was written....
...From Enron more than a decade ago to Volkswagen this year, investors are often thrown by what some call “out of the blue” and “black swan” risks, or unexpected events that destroy shareholder value....
...The Odd Life of Timothy Green is Disney gone pathologically fey. A little boy materialises, from a wish, for childless couple Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton....
...… Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, by Timothy Geithner, Random House Business, RRP£25/ Crown, RRP$35 Geithner was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then Treasury secretary...
...One moment a saint, the next a 15th-century lady, a bird, cat, Christ, a heraldic swan, that blue hat. An encyclopedia of medieval life unfolded in a city now eager to reclaim its venerable past....
...This, says deCarbonnel, is one of the lesser-known nuances of Nassim ‘Black Swan’ Taleb’s well-known shorting of US Treasuries strategy. The central bank of volatility?...
...The financial system will never eliminate its sparrows (perhaps black swans would be a more appropriate bird) so it needs the equivalent of those safety gates....
...Bridgehead International Melton Mowbray Website: www.bridgehead.com Employees: 34 Chief executive officer: Timothy Fitzgerald Bridgehead International, established in 1994, is a strategic healthcare...
...Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’, gives us 10 principles to bring economic life closer to our biological environment....
...‘Sean Scully, Paintings from the 1980s’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London W1, until February 14; www.timothytaylorgallery.com...
...“These guys didn’t do anything more stupid than the other firms on Wall Street,” explained Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan....
...The carousel was a winter scene of sleighs pulled by an outsized cat, swan and goat. Despite its size and obvious weight, it was delicate....
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