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Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival: Debra-Jane swapped bank job for comedy This is Leicestershire When she won the award, in 2005, she was living a dual life which she had only embarked on a year before – investment banker by day, wannabe comedian by night. Not expecting to win, she took to the stage at the Y Theatre and strutted her observational ... |
Swiss central banker goes down - and might take Europe with him Daily Maverick Bern has now been thrown into further turmoil, presaged by the resignation of the head of the Swiss National Bank. Cue the “hole in the cheese” jokes. But no one is laughing. By RICHARD POPLAK. By all accounts, Philipp M. Hildebrand, former chairman of ... |
A Film Noir Photo Essay on the Secretive World of Swiss Banks The Atlantic If one spends some time hanging around outside a bank, sooner or later the security is going to get interested, and rather than men with guns and scowls, in Switzerland, it's usually polite gentlemen in suits, who make jokes about just wanting to check ... |
 New York Times (blog) | Commerzbank Chief Defends Not Paying Past Bonuses New York Times (blog) By JULIA WERDIGIER LONDON — Martin Blessing, the chief executive of Commerzbank, said on Monday that he thought he had acted “honorably” when the bank decided not to pay 2008 bonuses to 104 investment bankers. During a cross examination at the Royal ... |
 Irish Times | Fundraiser, confidante and cheerleader for Newt Irish Times The Kennedy family property on the same street, once known as the “Winter White House”, was sold to a New York banker who holds Republican fundraisers there. Gaines jokes that Florida's Atlantic seaboard is the “right coast” as opposed to the “left ... |
 Riverfront Times (blog) | Northside Appeal Preview: Juicy Excerpts from a Boisterous Legal Back-and-Forth Riverfront Times (blog) One is reminded of the old Wall Street joke. How does one know a Wall Street Investment Banker is lying? Because his lips are moving. One is inclined to think that when a shrewd businessman submits a proposal which any shrewd businessman would know has ... |
 The Spoiler | Timekeeping not the strong point of Santos president The Spoiler I burn food on BBQs, find 2p rather £20 on street pavements and struggle to get a laugh for any of my best jokes (although this could be the fault of the joke rather than my comedy timing) Well at least I'm not the only one needing to get a new watch. |
Smash-mouth: Confronting Homophobia and Misogyny on the Set of NBC's New Series Huffington Post Soon I learn that Stephen works as a banker, not as a professional actor. Like me, he is doing this for the adventure. My new friend and I are instructed to act like a gay power couple, gripping and grinning as we work our way through the mass of ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Debt crisis: as it happened January 19, 2012 Telegraph.co.uk Here Paul O'Hanlon writes a sign on the side of the #Occupydamestreet Camp, which has been outside Ireland's Central Bank in Dublin for three months. Photo: PA David Cameron said he would curb an 'out of control bonus culture' as he launched a robust ... |
American Idol: Portland, Oregon auditions Toronto Star Blogs (blog) The bad news is that it was more of the same formulaic programming: more sob stories; more corny jokes at contestants' expense; more crowd shots of thousands of people who never got anywhere near the judges; more rock-star posturing from Steven Tyler; ... |
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