With the ungainly title of "Managed Account Select, " Schwab has hired the investment consultant Callan Associates to compile a list of 50 money managers, differentiated by a dozen different investment styles.

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And speaking of great wars, Jason Stearns' Dancing in the Glory of Monsters wins my vote for the best title, as well as being an excellent account of the horrors and complexities of the conflicts in DR Congo.

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Having been pipped to the all-around title (which takes into account performances on all four pieces of apparatus) by team-mate Nastia Liukin, Johnson exacted revenge on the balance beam, the final women's gymnastics event of the Beijing Games.

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Among the successes were Lost For Words starring Dame Thora Hird, which was named best drama, and Channel 4's The Phil, a fly-on-the-wall account of the Philharmonia orchestra, which took the arts title.

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He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

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