Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

Music and politics have a very strange relationship because music is responsive, politics is kind of... conscriptive, in a sense.

Sadly, the spammers have long since grown savvy. They now dissemble behind innocent-looking addresses and send messages like: 'Just wrote to say Hi.' This is a lie. They wrote because they want to sell you spare parts for abdominisers.

Princess Sonja, the daughter of an Oslo fashion house director, married Crown Prince Harald last summer after a will-they-won't-they romance that had gone on for a decade.