• Though his vocal parts sometimes meandered, Mr. Previn's orchestral writing was smart and evocative, encompassing hints of Benjamin Britten and touches of jazz, like the sinuous saxophone riffs that color the rhapsodic, earthy relationship of Stella and Stanley.

    WSJ: The Emperor's Race New Clothes | Eliogabalo | A Streetcar Named Desire | Opera Reviews by Heidi Waleson

  • Blodget--along with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Michael Parekh of Goldman Sachs and Keith Benjamin of BancBoston Robertson Stephens--is a member of an elite group of Wall Street Internet pundits who have the power to decide which net-stock is worthy of investors' money.

    FORBES: To be an Internet analyst

  • Also notice the deep commitment to the personal and profound intimacy of Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2, still a sleeper, waiting for our attention to turn from music that makes bigger noises and demands.

    NPR: The Jupiter String Quartet: Orbiting Perfection

  • It tells the peculiar love story of Benjamin and Daisy, whose romance is constantly thwarted by the fact that Benjamin's body almost never matches up with his chronological age.

    NPR: In 'Benjamin Button,' A Curiously Chilly Passion

  • And then there was the case of Benjamin Morrell, who had drifted around the southern hemisphere between 1822 and 1831 in search of treasure, seals, wealth and fame.

    WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes

  • It was founded and designed by Odile and Douglas Benjamin, part of the FJ Benjamin family who owns the Singapore franchises for Givenchy, Gap, Goyard and Celine.

    FORBES: Singapore Labels Quietly Outpace Chinese Brands

  • The result, according to Michael Schill and Benjamin Scafidi of New York University, is that 56% of the city's 1.9m rented homes are still regulated.

    ECONOMIST: New York��s housing market

  • But he proved a competent administrator when he was made transport minister in the late 1980s, and he served as minister of tourism and deputy prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's first government, elected in 1996.

    BBC: Profile: Moshe Katsav

  • The sharp design lines and bespoke furniture are mirrored in the equally stylish and creative cooking of French head chef Benjamin Launay, with dishes such as steamed trout paired with buckwheat and boletus mushrooms or ravioli filled with beef on a bed of creamed leeks.

    BBC: Epicurean Slovenia makes its mark

  • And a startling commentary earlier this month by Benjamin Tal and Avery Shenfeld of CIBC World Markets spells out just how exposed these debts are to rising interest rates.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • The right-of-center government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a short and restrained statement of support after the speech.

    WSJ: In Israel, Reaction to Remarks on Palestinian Conflict Is Mixed

  • His father bought him a copy of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd's Security Analysis when he was in high school.

    FORBES: Know What You're Buying

  • Jobs has reportedly picked Walter Isaacson, whose lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin were both best sellers, to tell his tale.

    FORBES: The Steve Jobs Chronicles, Part III

  • In 2003, Mr Powell - a cousin of the poet and author Benjamin Zephaniah - died after he was restrained by officers during an incident outside his home.

    BBC: News - Today - Charity calls for inquiry into police custody deaths

  • In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.

    NPR: Einstein: Relatively Speaking, a Complicated Life

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).

    FORBES: The Guru in the Vegetable Bin

  • He's framed the current presidential election as one between Romney - whom he sees as man with an Ayn Rand-like philosophy of personal responsibility to the point of divisiveness - and Obama, a Benjamin Disraeli-like candidate, whom Sullivan views as believing in the obligation of the coherence of the nation.

    BBC: Is Barack Obama a Tory?

  • Bourgoin inched their way back through the boots of first Sebastien Laloo and then Benjamin Boyet.

    BBC: Ospreys 22-15 Bourgoin

  • The heavy volumes of belfry and encircling columns recall Benjamin Latrobe's weighty towers on his Baltimore cathedral from a decade earlier.

    WSJ: Prim Grandeur, Elegant Geometries | Charles Bulfinch | Lancaster Meetinghouse | By John Wilmerding

  • Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).

    ECONOMIST: Liberalism

  • Like most other firms, it now provides free access to its games, collecting revenue from the 10% or so of players who are prepared to pay for in-game extras such as weapons, medicine and shields, says Benjamin Joffe, chief executive of Plus Eight Star, a technology consultancy in Beijing.

    ECONOMIST: Online gaming in China

  • Investors would be better off ignoring the day-to-day market changes and studying the words of great investors like Warren Buffett, David Dreman, and Benjamin Graham.

    FORBES: The Biggest Lesson I Learned from Running a Hedge Fund

  • At the center of all of this was Rufus Paul Harris (43 of Adairsville, GA), Benjamin Stanley (48 of Kennesaw, GA and chief operating officer) and Darryl Horton (50 of Okemos, MI and chief financial officer).

    FORBES: Conversion Solutions Holdings' CEO Gets 23 Years In Prison

  • The son of a German Jew who fled the Nazis to come to England, he was a musical protege, composing scores at the age of nine and going on to learn at the feet of the renowned British composer Benjamin Britten.

    CNN: Orchestral maneuvers in the boardroom

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met separately late Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about ending a deadlock of more than four years over settlements.

    NPR: Palestinians Cool To Partial Settlement Freeze

  • The competition was started in 1978 and has helped launch the careers of classical musicians including Natalie Clein, Alison Balsom, Benjamin Grosvenor and Emma Johnson.

    BBC: Young Musician 2014 launches new Jazz Award

  • President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have a notoriously prickly relationship, and an opinion poll of Jewish Israelis indicates that 51% think Obama is neutral about Israel - 10% think he is hostile.

    BBC: Obama starts rebuilding bridges in Israel

  • Olmert's comments came days after the former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for their handling of Iran, saying neither inspires confidence.

    CNN: Former Israeli PM calls for U.S. to lead any Iran strike

  • Although few details of the book's creation are known, it is generally believed to have been the work of an English bookseller, publisher, journalist, and staunch antipapist named Benjamin Harris, who fled London for Boston in 1686 following the ascent of King James II to the British throne.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'

  • That is the surprising finding of a recent study by Daniel Benjamin, Ori Heffetz and Alex Rees-Jones, three economists from Cornell University, and Miles Kimball of the University of Michigan.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

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