Vicky Ward

27.04.09

I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das

06.04.09

THE Russian businessman I was having a drink with lived in London. "I prefer London to New York right now; in London not everyone talks about their...
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30.03.09

DETAILS magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston — who is 40

23.03.09

MY neighbour at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic

16.03.09

These days it's not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press

09.03.09

My English friend was worried. “I guess the next step is getting American-accent lessons,” she said over dinner the other night

02.03.09

New York’s latest financial criminal mastermind — and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled — is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town...
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16.02.09

New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, "the show must go on"

09.02.09

Another day, another one bites the dust. Friends everywhere are losing their jobs.

26.01.09

“How much should a Wall Street CEO get paid?” The question got bandied around on Thursday night at dinner — by a bunch of Wall Street CEOs.

12.01.09

Today prosecutors will make their case that Bernard Madoff should be jailed for violation of bail conditions

05.01.09

If the recession doesn't kill you, parenthood will. That has been my experience over the New Year

29.12.08

I wish I could say that this holiday season has felt as cheerful as usual. But the emptiness in New York's streets and stores both on December 24th...
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22.12.08

"What recession?" shouted the front page of the New York Post last week, beside a picture of a blonde Swedish countess, Marie Douglas-David

15.12.08

IT BEGAN with the names of corporate victims who had lived high on debt, such as Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, casino king Sheldon Adelson and Lehman...
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08.12.08

Just when I'd hoped Sarah Palin would disappear from public consciousness, it seems we can't get rid of the former Republican vice-presidential...
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01.12.08

On the eve of Thanksgiving, the TV screens filled with the terrible footage of the attacks on Mumbai

24.11.08

We're told a global recession of almost Depression proportions is taking place, fragmenting the social hierarchy

17.11.08

Given that it hasn't yet got properly cold here, it feels like a very strange hallucination

10.11.08

For a moment last week, around midnight on Tuesday, we all went mad with joy