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...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...In the words of Clifford Chance’s former managing partner Tony Williams: “They’re making good progress, but they’re not yet transforming the market.”...
...Lazard chair William Rucker has been named chair of private equity firm ICG, effective January 1....
...They range from his earliest, “I Lost My Little Girl”, written when he was 14, to last year’s album McCartney III, released when he was 78....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Rule III, nicely summarised as “have the damn fight”, is a plea to get things out into the open....
...Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, by Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$25, 224 pages Applebaum is as comfortable writing about people and their...
...Letters in response to this article: The Habsburgs still offer lessons for today’s Europe / From William Salomon, Senior Partner, Hansa Capital Partners, London W1, UK Monarchs show their worth in troubled...
...When the royals, from Charles II to William & Mary to George III to queens Caroline and Charlotte, embraced “botanising” and “landskipping”, the nobility and emerging middle classes were naturally going...
...William Allen National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London SW1, UK...
...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....
...Even with tight confidentiality rules, the public must feel convinced that their data is safe, UCL’s Oliver Duke-Williams says....
...A longstanding critic of David Cameron, he once said: “As Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Cameron is a sphinx without a riddle.”...
...Thank goodness, then, for James Shapiro’s 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...William III first brought in the unpopular revenue-generator in 1696....
...William III first brought in the unpopular revenue generator in 1696....
..., Allen Lane, RRP£10.99, 120 pages George V: The Unexpected King, by David Cannadine, Allen Lane, RRP£10.99, 121 pages George VI: The Dutiful King, by Philip Ziegler, Allen Lane, RRP£10.99, 94 pages Matthew...
...… Winner: William Liu, partner, Linklaters Linklaters capital markets partner William Liu has played a key role in developing the renminbi-denominated “dim sum” bond market....
...The tartans were conjured by English brothers named Allen, conmen posing as descendants of Charles Edward Stuart, “Bonnie Prince Charlie”....
...What effect will the naming choice of new parents William and Kate have on the rest of the country? The best indication comes from Prince William’s own birth....
...Frances’s predecessor, the 81-year-old Robert Spitzer, is in no doubt about why the DSM-III, over which he presided, had been such a hit....
...From Mr William A. Allen Sir, You report that some banks are withdrawing from trade finance because of Basel III (“Banks test ‘CDOs’ for trade finance”, April 9)....
...Gibbs then passed it on to William Robert Prince of the Linnaean Botanic Garden in Flushing, Long Island, who named it Isabella (Vitis isabellae) in 1822 in honour of the colonel’s wife, Mrs Isabella Gibbs...
...“The members of the IC are William Ardell (Chair), James Bowland, and James Hyde”, says the report....
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