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...Goldman Sachs to summarise: EBIT (+13.5% YoY growth) and retail cash flow slightly ahead of consensus, helped by delivering Booker synergies one year ahead of guidance....
...McCrum had been at Faber for less than a year when he approached Peter Carey and Kazuo Ishiguro, the former going on to win the Booker Prize twice, and the latter winning the Booker and the Nobel....
...Would Booker's proposal actually help? Or would it just create incentives for a lot of bizarre corporate behaviour?...
...in the past hour, which tells you three things: i) it still does not have the 50.1 per cent of GKN shareholder acceptances that it needs to win its hostile bid; ii) it is still far too close to call; iii...
...“You can’t understand American notions of freedom without including American notions of slavery,” says founding director Lonnie G Bunch III....
...A one-woman whirlwind, she established the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at the University of London, chaired the Man Booker Prize judges one year, was a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...The stage plays of the Booker Prize winning novel series by Hilary Mantel — recently dramatised for television by the BBC — opened on Broadway this week, to mixed reviews from New York critics....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Booker: alison.smith@ft.com...
...The FT's Investment Banking Correspondent Megan Murphy tells Christopher Booker the transitions will take nearly five years to complete but will leave the bank ahead of Basell III's minimum requirements...
...Some actually make it to the screen (Al Pacino as Richard III) but most don’t (Jon Voight as Robin Hood, anyone?)....
...Hilary Mantel’s novel, a Man Booker Prize-winner last year, is a transfiguring experience....
...Richard Wright’s gold leaf fresco was whitewashed over on January 3 2. i) b) A Cherry, Cherry Christmas, Neil Diamond ii) c) Alma Mater, Pope Benedict XVI iii) a) Christmas in the Heart, Bob Dylan 3....
...2 Match the Christmas albums to the singers (pictured above): (i) A Cherry, Cherry Christmas; (ii) Alma Mater; (iii) Christmas in the Heart 3 January 1 2010 is the 450th anniversary of a diary whose first...
...But Cory Booker, the youthful and charismatic black mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is backing Mr Obama, as is Shirley Franklin, Atlanta’s African-American mayor....
...A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson Jonathan Cape £30, 555 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific...
...It shows Ernst Leitz II, then a vigorous 40-year-old, posing with his three children, Elsie, Ludwig and Ernst III, beneath a portrait of his father, Ernst I, the founder of the camera company....
...POLITICS Donald Morrison STATE OF DENIAL: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster ₤18.99, 576 pages After two admiring books about the White House’s conduct of the Iraq war, Watergate...
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