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...Haydn Gwynne is wonderfully dry as prime minister Stanley Baldwin; Kevin McMonagle fiery as union leader Ernest Bevin....
...Boy soprano Walter Russell III sang the child Blow, lightish baritone Will Liverman the adult....
...For now regulators seem opposed to the step bankers most want: a relaxation of reforms such as the international Basel III regulations or America’s Dodd-Frank act....
...US hedge fund managers are also eyeing how to profit from the disruption to European banks as they are forced to shrink their balance sheets ahead of incoming Basel III capital requirements, meaning assets...
...- Kevin Roose finds that the age of bull$hit investments is back! - Heidi Moore on the JPMorgan settlement. - Karl Smith on Ken Rogoff on the UK, and an extreme hypothetical....
...Some actually make it to the screen (Al Pacino as Richard III) but most don’t (Jon Voight as Robin Hood, anyone?)....
...Tom Cruise’s first-dollar gross deal on Mission: Impossible III (2006), for example, entitled him to 22 per cent of the film’s box-office – a payday of about $80m....
...Stefan Walter, secretary-general of the Basel committee, said the relationships between different elements of the reform package was one of the key issues still to be decided....
...In a 2008 speech, Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, blamed the “greed is good era” for the crash....
...Some excellent interior images from Andreas Gursky, Andrew Moore and Ahmet Ertug are also up for grabs....
...This time it was ABT’s artistic director Kevin McKenzie in a non-dancing role as the Client; the floozies, all former ABT alumni, were Kathleen Moore (Juno), Martine van Hamel (Venus) and Bonnie Mathis (...
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
...Graham Moores, Abu Dhabi Glenn Hubbard: US markets remain a significant leadership position....
...Kevin Moore, Hong Kong GR: It is one of the frustrations of the current situation that moderates on both sides - and western diplomats - have long been able to define the basic elements of a two-state solution...
...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...
...When Rove heard Moore’s judgment of him on Fox News recently, he dismissed him as “a far left-winger who has been drinking too much swamp water”....
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