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...SNIB chair Willie Watt told the FT that it was not surprising that the bank had got off to a slow start given it has been focused on getting up and running in its early phases....
...Next to the Americans was an Englishman named Alan Watts. Born in Kent, trained as an Episcopalian priest, Watts had become one of the best-known interpreters of Zen Buddhism in the west....
...For Sex and the City fans of the character Stanford Blatch, I highly recommend the two-part episode she did with Willie Garson, who played him.”...
...Britain’s aristocrats were not as anti-merit as the American republicans believed: the pioneer industrial state was founded on the genius of inventors like Richard Arkwright, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt...
...The First Rose of Spring begins with the title track (written by Randy Houser, Allen Shamblin and Mark Beeson). Nelson has always been a storyteller in song, and this is a story with a bleak twist....
...Willie Watt, 61, told the Financial Times that the Scottish National Investment Bank would make a “proper positive return”, filling gaps in the financing of infrastructure projects and small and medium-sized...
...Martin Currie, the £17bn Edinburgh-based investment manager, is expected to announce that it has promoted Julian Ide to the role of chief executive while the current long-serving CEO Willie Watt will retain...
...Allen, who died in April, also turns up on “Future Toyi Toyi”, leading the action with a typically charismatic display of fluent busyness....
...EFG London Jazz Festival ranged from local contemporary acts to American 1970s funksters The Fatback Band and from heavyweight Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch to pioneering British free-jazz saxophonist Trevor Watts...
...The current long-serving chief Willie Watt will retain his role as chairman....
...Meanwhile, Willie Watt, who had been in charge of Edinburgh shop Martin Currie since 2001, stepped down as chief executive in February but will remain chairman of the Legg Mason-owned investment group....
...In a glimpse of the hierarchy that underpins the Stones’ set-up, his vocals seemed louder in the mix than backing singer Sasha Allen for an intense “Gimme Shelter” in the encore....
...Rose’s buddy Jay Allen put a bunch of vintage pumps at the old Texaco gas station and plastered the streets with 1950s signage and cars....
...And finally: I had thought I was reasonably conversant with the units of energy and power, but this week I discovered a new one: the yottawatt, which is one million billion billion watts....
...She returned with a series of portraits taken in Imperial Courts, a housing project in Watts, whose low-income African-American residents were the kind of people often stereotyped in the press as criminals...
...The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power, by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$30, 608 pages Tim Harford is an FT columnist Follow @FTLifeArts...
...Annie Hall Woody Allen’s 1977 heroine, played by Diane Keaton, is still the ultimate in androgynous chic....
...In July, Willie Walsh, chief executive officer at IAG, said the disruption had so far cost it £73m....
...Recorded live in three days and produced without overdubs, Blue & Lonesome finds them bashing out no-nonsense versions of songs by the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon....
...It offers them 120 sq ft of mobile shop space and inside, old Willie Nelson records play on a turntable....
...Twenty-year-old Henry Watts, on his way to the bank he works in, said he was in shock. “This is not the country I thought it was....
...More than 1,700 clients registered for a conference call arranged by Allen & Overy, the law firm, on Friday....
...Others saying “Grace” include Elvis Presley (in 1971), Willie Nelson (1976), and even alt-rock band The Lemonheads (1987)....
...Alongside, Jarlath Conroy provides an effective foil as the decrepit, monosyllabic Willie, who seems incapable of either helping or fleeing from his relentlessly bossy companion....
...in honour of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who used to taunt his younger friend with the song....
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