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...From the first moment of Casino Royale, Craig was a different sort of Bond. Instead of the 007 of the Fleming canon - a tough but smooth gentleman spy, schooled at Eton and Cambridge, radiating wit and warm sensuality - Craig seems a cyber- or cipher-Bond, with a loyalty chip implanted in a mechanism that's built for murderous ingenuity. ("If you could avoid killing every possible lead," M tells him in this installment, "it would be deeply appreciated.") In lieu of the double-entendre bons mots assigned to Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan, Craig communicates in grunts and sullen...
Clever, articulate, well educated, socially adept, politically astute, photogenic, charming, charismatic, Cameron does fill all the slots - bar one. His charmed life (the gilded youth of this son of a wealthy stockbroker; the education at that most élite of British schools, Eton College, followed by Oxford University; the meteoric political advancement) has been very short of the character-forming struggles that garnish many a political résumé. While across the Atlantic the presidential contenders flaunt their personal stories, parade their families and brandish their scars, the Conservatives trust that buttoned-up Brits care less about such things...
...history-filled day also saw Eton and Harrow match up for the 18th time as well as the 105th playing between Cambridge and Oxford. The latter schools met for the first time in November...
...stable macroeconomic situation...There are microeconomic factors as well, especially in Brazil, where there are new rules for bankruptcy, strengthened force of law for arbitration, and clear transparency for minority shareholders.” In an interview after the session, panelist Francisco A. Demalde of American investment firm Eton Park Capital Management, said that it was important for undergraduates interested in finance to start learning as quickly as possible. “Undergrads should take classes on macroeconomics, and learn about the history of the regions that they are interested in investing in,” Demalde said...
...Page left the bank and applied to Yale Divinity School. That year, he says, he wrote a draft of a book about Eton and tutored high school students. To supplement his income, he says he also worked as a security guard in East Somerville and as a liquor salesman, selling vodka to bars and liquor stores in Boston...