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...Sir William Holburne’s great-grandfather owned West Indian plantations — witness a ledger from 1720s Barbados in the museum....
...Brett Gorvy, managing partner at LGDR gallery, is chief curator and on the Mintus advisory board, while Tad Smith, previously chief executive of Sotheby’s, is also on its board....
...“The clear message China wanted to convey to foreign businesses is China is open for business,” says William Klein, a consulting partner at FGS Global and former senior US diplomat in Beijing....
...Having spent her entire professional life talking publicly about his legacy, she’s a tad blasé when discussing the Antarctic icebergs or the man himself, but she’s gleeful when it comes to Hardy....
...Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger, William Morrow $27.99/ William Collins, £20, 288 pages John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor Graphic timeline...
...Don’t miss Edward Luce and Rana Foroohar on May 7 at our inaugural US edition of the FTWeekend Festival, featuring leading luminaries including Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William J Burns,...
...With each subsequent tramp around the park, however, the joy eroded just a tad more....
...“Every person who habitually consumes one article of West Indian produce is guilty of the crime of murder,” William Fox wrote in a widely read 1791 pamphlet, calling for shoppers to boycott slave-produced...
...Many younger men are comfortable wearing jewellery today — chains, signet rings and bracelets are urbanite staples — but for some, diamonds have felt a tad too flashy or feminine....
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...he recalls . . . a tad hazily. Dawid Konotey-AhuluDiligent diversification “Too male, pale and stale.” This has long summed up the lack of diversity in City boardrooms....
...“Unless you get a grip on the health crisis, economic gains might be a tad ephemeral.” Additional reporting by Jyotsna Singh...
...“Before, it was a challenge for the supply chain to meet delivery targets and maintain quality while ramping up production rates,” said Robert Thomson of management consultancy Roland Berger, which has been...
...But the internal Lib Dem polling appeared to vindicate the decision to parachute in Luciana Berger as the party’s candidate....
...After significant management change William Hill needs to demonstrate it can hold onto its best people. ......
...The experiences of Luciana Berger, the MP for the neighbouring constituency of Liverpool Wavertree, who quit the party last month, have been still worse....
...James Laing rises to Demetrio’s tragic status, Rachael Lloyd captures the fury of Berenice’s rival Selene, and William Berger is the pragmatic Aristobolo....
...Griffith will replace former UBS banker William Vereker in the role. More here. Now for the main event . . ....
...If only William Debenham’s successors had so resisted the public markets....
...“Sotheby’s is like an old master painting in desperate need of restoration,” activist investor Dan Loeb once wrote in a letter to William Ruprecht, the former chairman, president and chief executive of the...
...So observed William Shakespeare in 1600, on the way to Stratford. Well, in actual fact, so observed comedian David Mitchell in Shakespearean sitcom Upstart Crow at 20:30 on BBC Two....
...The problem was that although the US government was no longer actively hostile, relations with its northern neighbour were still a tad frosty, fraught with history and bad intentions....
...In his 1972 book Ways of Seeing, the art critic John Berger illustrates the chapter on displays of wealth in art with a painting known as “The Paston Treasure”....
...For some, it’s a way to indulge, however briefly, what they want to be — stronger, craftier, more attractive and maybe a tad more rebellious....
...He says: stocks’ recent movements up and down have been smoother than in most periods since 1885, according to William Schwert, a finance professor at the University of Rochester....
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