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...Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is one of the pioneers of the $4tn private equity industry, having co-founded Carlyle Group in 1987 alongside William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello....
...“Emily [Blunt] is a best friend – and [Robert] Downey [Jr],” he says of the “surrogate family” who have been with him throughout. “I couldn’t have got through it without them....
...Perhaps a waxwork of William Beveridge would do?...
...That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
...Cubitts takes its name from Thomas, William and Lewis, three brothers who revolutionised the building industry in Victorian London....
...Winser, Gummer and head chef George Williams have done that to pub food....
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...It’s one of those blue-sky days when the English countryside is not so much green and pleasant as indecently gorgeous....
...Not one person otherwise, he says, has been less than pleasant. Just as pleasant for Broadbent, you suspect, have been the many times he has simply gone unrecognised....
...I’d never had anything like that in my life at that cost, it was crazy. The last thing I bought and loved was an evening jacket. I had an accident with my normal one....
...One of the most colourful among those taken hostage and led into the mountains was Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of oil and banking tycoon John D Rockefeller Jr....
...And I'd be, like, oh, the thing. And I'd be on PowerPoint making a sponsorship proposal. Networking is a huge thing. Takes up tons of time....
...But one of his MPs, Iain Paisley Jr, has repeatedly insisted that the framework “does not cut the mustard”....
...It finally arrived 95 minutes after I’d sat down — pleasant but hardly “the intersection of culture and cuisine” billed. Thankfully the kitchen redeemed itself the next morning....
...Whatever you think about her natural remedies and hokey theories, her no-bullshit candour and focus is something in which I’d happily invest....
...That said, the real star of the Dandenong Ranges is the William Ricketts Sanctuary....
...From Poughkeepsie (pronounced “Puh-kip-see”) we made a thoroughly worthwhile detour to Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate....
...The FT’s US trade correspondent Aime Williams has more on what a delay in lifting the tariffs on UK metals means for the country....
...Hank Williams Jr’s witty tale of the mishaps of a touring country musician, “OD’d in Denver”, is stripped down musically but built up vocally, with Callahan and Oldham singing in overdubbed unison, accompanied...
...Sophia is going to help sort our FT team out — she’s an expert in workflow management — but I’d be interested to hear what workflow and collaboration tools work best for you....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...When I spoke to Klein, she’d marvelled at the young families at the park next to her office. It was the same park she’d frequented when her sons were toddlers....
...“A pleasant ‘third space’ that isn’t home.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...In 2014, he was named co-president, signalling that he was being groomed to take Carlyle’s reins once its triumvirate of billionaire co-founders — Rubenstein, William Conway, and Daniel D’Aniello — stepped...
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