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...When US entrepreneur Vernon W Hill opened the first branch of Metro Bank in London, he filled the street with jugglers, a Dixieland band, waitresses serving 5,000 ice creams, and dancers on stilts in red...
...Metro: second’s best His name is Vernon W Hill II. His dog is called Sir Duffield II. And his second bank, Metro, is a focus of regulatory concern over governance just as his first bank in the US was....
...We are speaking via phone because Ruby is based in Vernon, California, roughly five miles south of Los Angeles....
...Do I need to describe him, or can I simply say that his full name is Vernon W Hill II, he has played golf with Donald Trump and he owns a Yorkshire terrier called Sir Duffield II?...
...“FREEDOM LIVES,” writes Vernon W....
...Vernon Bogdanor Professor of Government, King’s College London, UK Letter in response to this letter: You never can tell with dictators / From Dr David D Hebb...
...philip.stephens@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Iraq: others also have questions to answer / From Vernon Bogdanor...
...Twelve hours later, I returned to a nearby tent to see a midnight screening of F.W....
...It was the tens of thousands of memos written by George W Bush’s defence secretary that first intrigued Morris....
...“US investors are willing to pay more for growth,” said Vernon Hill, chairman....
...He warns that the “carveout” banks – TSB and W & G – could struggle as they have neither economies of scale nor rapid growth potential....
...W H Auden, the poet, said: “Routine, in an intelligent man, is the sign of ambition.” I am not sure I agree....
...Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Mercury) Kanye West has an extraordinary talent for rubbing people up the wrong way, extending all the way to George W....
...And school plays often score top grades – from Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version to more recent hits such as Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock and David Eldridge’s Under the...
...As well as Ms Barshefsky, the Corporate Library’s super-connected list includes figures such as Edith Holiday, former assistant to president George H.W....
...Vernon Bogdanor is professor of government at Oxford University. He is editor of ‘New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair’ (Palgrave)...
...George W. Bush 100. Fidel Castro...
...Then we’d all be scr*w*d,” wrote “paladin”. Other locals decried the backlash, including Gibson’s mother, but it was the hateful postings that transfixed the island....
...Foothill Blvd Rialto: N Riverside Ave & E Highland Ave Rialto: Foothill Blvd & N Pepper Ave Yucaipa: Oak Glen Rd & Yucaipa Blvd Victorville: El Evado Rd & Palmdale Rd Grand Terrace: Barton & Mt Vernon...
...Mr Sarkozy was later due to meet President George W. Bush for talks at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington....
...Shinzo Abe has no favourite Elvis song, no great flair for entertaining anecdotes and little of the knockabout charm that so endeared his predecessor to President George W. Bush....
...If there were an Oscar for political slime, the award would go to Vernon Robinson, a congressional challenger in North Carolina....
...George Washington left office to spend the three remaining years of his life at Mount Vernon. In retiring, he sought to emphasise the difference between a president and a king....
...Mr Blair and President George W. Bush have had a famously close relationship but this could not be replicated in the limited time Mr Bush now has in the White House....
...(George Washington certainly slept here; his Mount Vernon estate is down the road.)...
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