Mr Yates said he had looked back to what he had written on 31 March last year, after receiving a complaint from the SNP MP Angus MacNeil, and said he had considered the dangers of the police being seen as impartial or used as a political tool.

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After Leong joined Genting, analysts were guarded in their appraisals at first, wondering what a 26-year-old would know about strategic investments, even if he had been an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

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After Leong joined Genting, analysts were guarded in their appraisals at first, wondering what a 26-year-old would know about strategic investments, even if he had been an investment banker at Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ).

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Before Murphy's triumph, Ronnie O'Sullivan's defeat by Peter Ebdon and his announcement that he was considering taking a year off from the game were what had set people's tongues wagging.

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Then, he would never change its models: what was the point, when the firm had a ten-year waiting list?

ECONOMIST: Few hands make work light