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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...A touch of drama The mood for winter coats is larger than life — think Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, Ivana Trump in her heyday or the original TV series of Dynasty. No shrinking violets here....
...Plus displays on patent infringement, experimental first world war dazzle camouflage and an anechoic chamber from “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe....
...So far, results from Evercore, Lazard, Greenhill & Co and Houlihan Lokey are out....
...(FT) RIP Tom Wolfe The pioneer of “New Journalism” he passed away on Monday at 88....
...Timney had been poached in 2014 from Merck & Co, the Big Pharma company, in an attempt to professionalise the family company, but he failed to convince the Sacklers to spend some of Purdue’s cash on new...
...“As recently as a month ago the building consensus was for a V-shaped recovery for oil prices,” Bill Herbert, co-head of securities at Simmons & Co, the energy investment bank, told me....
...The agency has agreed to co-operate with Maps in a fresh series of clinical trials....
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...Bad news for leading drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough undercut positive sentiment Monday....
...Wyeth, Merck and other drugmakers face thousands of such suits potentially worth billions of dollars. The issue in the case is whether state law claims are pre-empted under federal law....
...But Merck’s superior gross margins and the strength of its near-term drug pipeline won this round....
...Manufacturer victories would be good news for an industry smarting from the Vioxx withdrawal, which cost Merck more than $6bn in legal and settlement costs....
...His rival, G.V....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
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