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...Job moves Swiss financial regulator Finma has appointed outgoing European Central Bank director Stefan Walter as its new chief executive....
...Lily Cole, actor and activistThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The best books I’ve read in the past year are all by Vonnegut....
...Later, the German artist Kurt Schwitters wrote them a letter: “I hear you are trading art for pots....
...It was converted with the help of his long-time architect and friend Basil Walter....
...There are fascinating reflections on German literature — Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Hans Fallada, Thomas Mann and Walter Kempowski’s war novel All for Nothing — as well as exquisite descriptions of the writing...
...At some point on Wednesday, Ms Hicks feels unwell and quarantines on Air Force One. 4.08PM CDT The president arrives in Minneapolis and is greeted by local Republican leaders including Paul Gazelka, Kurt...
...A bipartisan bill with a similar approach, although less ambitious, has been introduced by West Virginia Republican David McKinley and Oregon Democrat Kurt Schrader....
...Many composers — Berthold Goldschmidt, Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill — fled into exile, generally to the US or UK....
...Take for instance Walter and Eva Neurath, who founded Thames & Hudson in 1949, a decade after Walter had fled his native Vienna for London....
...Campbell countered with an offer for two directors, who they chose out of Third Point’s candidates: Sarah Hofstetter, president of ComScore, and Kurt Schmidt, a former chief executive of Blue Buffalo....
...Andris Nelsons follows such distinguished antecedents as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter and Kurt Masur — and took up his post last week with both modesty and an eye to the...
...In 1976, and in the spirit of the “Aspen Idea”, Kurt Brown launched the Aspen Writers’ Conference, a month-long meditation on fiction, non-fiction, playwriting and poetry....
...Though Moholy-Nagy only stayed for two years, before leaving for Chicago where he directed the New Bauhaus, other German émigrés, such as Bill Brandt, Felix Man, Kurt Hutton, Walter Nurnberg, Wolf Suschitsky...
...Kurt M Campbell is chairman and chief executive of the Asia Group and former assistant secretary of state for east Asia and the Pacific...
...Frank-Walter Steinmeier, parliamentary leader of the SPD, called the manifesto a “deliberate election fraud”....
...Kurt Mueller, Grainger’s director of corporate affairs, said the proposals would give the company more freedom about how it manages its property portfolio....
...In Player Piano (1952), the US writer and satirist Kurt Vonnegut predicted a dystopia in which giant computers have taken over brain work....
...Kurt Lauk, president of the CDU’s economic council, said there was already a danger that Europe was “rushing into an uncontrolled transfer union at great speed”....
...with particular genres (Gene Wolfe with science fiction and horror and Michael Marshall with the paranoid thriller) and those who fit more closely into the “literary” mainstream (Joyce Carol Oates and Kurt...
...She and Norbert Walter-Borjans, the finance minister, want to relieve the debts of some towns, crippled by high social costs, weak economies and demographic change....
...The German chancellor described the manner in which the SPD had nominated Frank-Walter Steinmeier, her cabinet colleague, “unworthy of a major party”....
...Under the leadership of Kurt Beck, the defenestrated chairman who tried to stem the haemorrhage of disaffected social democrats by bowing to leftwing demands, the party had started to implode in the polls...
...But, according to analysts and insiders, it could pave the way for the nomination of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, foreign minister, as SPD candidate to the poll....
...Germany’s troubled Social Democratic party on Sunday fired the starting shot in a year-long election race by ousting Kurt Beck, its hapless left-leaning chairman, and nominating the centrist Frank-Walter...
...In Italy, the centre-left opposition led by Walter Veltroni almost disappeared from public sight after losing this year’s election to Silvio Berlusconi....
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