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"Could you kindly tell me where you've been for the last couple of days?" asked the chairman of the ...

"Could you kindly tell me where you've been for the last couple of days?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we met for a bottle or two of Chateau de Vin at The Dark Side. "I've been worried sick." "How very touching," I replied. "Although I thought you'd finally found some evidence to support your theory it doesn't necessarily make you an alcoholic if you drink by yourself. Anyway, you know very well where I was - on a jolly little two-dayer to Paris courtesy of the good, good people at Barings, who were educating me as to the best and most...

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