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...boasting almost a quarter of a million clients, it is hard to find a trader or money manager in any financial office without one of the company's distinctive, multi-screen terminals on his or her desk. The Thomson-Reuters merger, however, leaves no doubt that the two older, outflanked companies are serious about doing together what they failed to do alone: showing down the upstart. "It would take a very brave company not to be somewhat alarmed" by the tie-up says Theresa Wise, a London-based partner at consultants Accenture...
...they can merge their households. By the end of the first act, everything has gone according to plan. But as the childhood lovers grow up in the second act, they break up and strike out in search of adventure—only to return home to each other, older and wiser. Harvard STAGE’s production of “The Fantasticks” distinguished itself in the strength of its performers. Not only did Jennifer L. Brown ’07 (Luisa) and Arlo D. Hill ’08 (Matt), the two leads, boast rich, pure singing...
...Nickolaw couldn't match Bennett for sumptuousness - Encores! revivals are staged with just the hint of scenery - but he found so much meaning and ache in the show that it didn't matter. Stripped of its finery, Follies was now pure and profound. He also seamlessly integrated the older stars playing the 1970s characters with the young actors playing their 1940s incarnations, cheerful and naive, committing the one forgivable sin of youth: to hope...
...money stymied his desire to read English literature at university. At a loose end, and with the family having moved to Kuala Lumpur, he persuaded his mother to let him earn a few ringgits by playing a couple of hours a night at a bar where one of the older Ponnudorai boys was a regular. "That was 1979," Ponnudorai says. "I walked into that bar and I haven't walked out of a bar since...
...morning after he found that letter again, Romney was headed to Iowa for the 16th time in the past two years. "The older I get, the smarter Dad is," Romney said. "I pattern myself like him - his character, his sense of vision, his sense of purpose...