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Quarto co-founder sells down
It appears to be the start of a new chapter for Quarto, which also recently announced the imminent departure of its chairman Tim Chadwick, credited for turning the business around by substantially alleviating debt levels.
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A Bibliography of Morley Roberts's Writings
Neacey presents a bibliography lists of all Morley Robert's book publications and their various editions, his contributions to anthologies and periodicals, and his uncollected works. It includes a chronological list of writings about him, and theatrical, cinematic, radio, and television adaptations of his works.
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Regenerating England: Science, Medicine, and Culture in Inter-War Britain (review)
While this refashioning was clearly important to the stabilization of British life, the editors perhaps go too far in accepting its centrality at the expense of other key developments in the wake of World War I-such as the central government's ability to restore a high degree of consent to taxation by 1924, which Martin Daunton points to as a crucial contrast with other countries such as Germany. Michael Bartholomew introduces the journalist and popular author H. V. Morton's vision of utopia, while Christopher Lawrence follows with what is destined to be an influential paper elucidating and placing the elite interwar English physicians' skepticism of the benefits of laboratory science in a wider cultural context. [...]this is a model collection with individual papers that both make important contributions to their own areas, and together successfully increase our understanding of the complex medical and cultural history of the interwar years.
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Robert Morley, Jowly Actor Of Jovial Roles, Dies at 84
Among the plays in which Mr. Morley starred in London were \"The Man Who Came to Dinner,\" \"The Little Hut,\" \"The First Gentleman,\" \"A Majority of One\" and \"Fanny.\" Helped Write His Best Role Mr. Morley's major movies included \"The African Queen\" (1951), in which he was Katharine Hepburn's brother; \"Gilbert and Sullivan\" (1953), as the lyricist W. S. Gilbert; \"Beat the Devil,\" the 1954 John Huston and Truman Capote spoof of the international intrigue genre, in which Mr. Morley was the seedy Sydney Greenstreet-like gang leader, and \"[Oscar Wilde],\" the 1960 film version of his earlier stage triumph. Among other Morley films were \"Topkapi\" (1964), \"Song of Norway\" (1970), \"The Blue Bird\" (1976) and \"Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?\" (1978). He did not appear in the film version of \"Edward, My Son\" -- Spencer Tracy got his role -- but the live television version in 1955 did star Mr. Morley and it was enormously successful.
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Rummaging within private markets
[Robert Morley] got the shares as part of his pay when he was controller of the social-networking giant in 2007 and 2008. The likely value of the stock promptly ballooned as the Internet company's popularity and business prospects surged. Soon, the stake accounted for an uncomfortably high percentage of Morley's personal wealth, and he wasn't the only Facebook shareholder in that predicament. \"You have a little seller's remorse,\" said Morley, who saw Facebook's valuation skyrocket to $50 billion and beyond after he sold some shares. \"I was ecstatic at $40 billion. Now it's at $70 billion, and I'm going, 'What was I doing?' But you can't be greedy.\"
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EXCLUSIVE EXCHANGES SERVE AMERICA'S ELITE
Soon, the stake accounted for an uncomfortably high percentage of [Robert Morley]'s wealth, and he wasn't the only Facebook shareholder in that predicament. Facebook is privately held, meaning its shares don't trade on an exchange, so there was no easy way for Morley to cash out. Then he learned about SecondMarket, a startup matching buyers and sellers of private firms' shares. Since last year he has sold three chunks of Facebook stock. The brokers, who number about 10, sit in the company's Wall Street office 10 floors up from the famous statue of a charging bull. SecondMarket handles trades of shares in about 40 companies, said Adam Oliveri, the 28-year-old head of the firm's private-share market. But he predicts that number will rise quickly to 500 companies: \"There's immense growth ahead.\"
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Private exchanges
[Robert Morley] got the shares as part of his pay when he was controller of the social-networking giant in 2007 and 2008. The likely value of the stock promptly ballooned as the Internet company's popularity and business prospects surged. Soon the stake accounted for an uncomfortably high percentage of Morley's personal wealth, and he wasn't the only Facebook shareholder in that predicament. Then he learned about SecondMarket, a startup that matches buyers and sellers of shares of private firms. Since late last year, he has used SecondMarket to sell three chunks of his Facebook stock at lofty prices. (Morley declined to say how much he sold or still owned.) \"How do you protect investors when these private companies do strange things?\" asked Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University. \"You run the risk of disaster.\"
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NHS database: 1 in 10 patient records wrong
Dr [Robert Morley] added: 'We believe that either this is a major risk to patient safety or, if they are not to be relied upon, it shows that they have been wrong to spend all these millions developing a system in the first place.' The BMA's GPs committee passed a motion on Thursday saying the system should 'immediately be suspended' until all safety issues have been 'fully investigated and satisfactorily resolved'. The Department of Health said: 'We have always been clear about the importance of using safety features such as Smartcards... The experience in Scotland, which has had a similar electronic summary operating for a number of years, shows the benefits it provides to patients receiving emergency and out-of-hours care.' A spokesman added that the Government was reviewing the information sent to patients about the Summary Care Record and the process by which they can opt out, as well as reviewing the content of the record. The Government has come under fire for proceeding with the system which was launched by Labour, though it is understood to be planning to scale it back significantly.
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National: Crime: DNA solves murder of schoolboy after 24 years
The case of a nine-year-old boy who was murdered after he walked home from school has been solved after more than 24 years, police said yesterday.
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