Apple suffers setback in fight against EU order to pay £11bn tax bill in Ireland | The Baffling Cruelty of Alfred Hitchcock | Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke on Maori History and Engaging Youth in Politics | India's Tata Technologies in talks with Morgan Stanley, US funds for IPO investment -sources

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� � � � � � Apple suffers setback in fight against EU order to pay £11bn tax bill in Ireland - the Guardian    Top adviser to European court of justice says ruling three years ago in tech giant's favour should be set aside Apple has suffered a setback in its battle against an order to pay an alleged €13bn (£11.3bn) tax bill in Ireland, after one of the top advisers to the European court of justice (ECJ) said a ruling in the tech company's favour should be set side. It is the latest twist in a near 10-year saga over allegations that Apple received favourable tax status in Ireland which resulted in a €13bn benefit, in which the tech company sided with the Irish government in battling an order to pay up issued by Europe's competition watchdog. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The Baffling Cruelty of Alfred Hitchcock - The Atlantic    A new book examines why the director was so stringent with—and sometimes even sadistic toward—his female leads. Anyone who’s ever watched an Alfred Hitchcock film—seen Tippi Hedren clawed to pieces by dozens of gulls and ravens or Janet Leigh repeatedly stabbed in the shower—would have to wonder about the director’s attitude toward women. When it came to his leading actresses, he was known to have walked a line between stringent and outright sadistic. And yet the particular nature of Hitchcock’s collaborations with these women continues to serve as fodder for study and debate, despite the fact that the details of these relationships are more or less undisputed: With Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, and Leigh, the director would veer between the courtly and the coarse, at one moment inviting them to dine with his wife at his house in Bel Air, the next peppering them with filthy jokes in his trailer. And at least one allegation indicates that his behavior may have moved from the volatility long associated with Hollywood directors into something we today would call abuse. In a 2016 memoir, Hedren says that Hitchcock sexually assaulted her twice, while working on The Birds and Marnie, and that she experienced retaliation from him on set after she rebuffed him. Hitchcock’s dynamics with women have been amply examined in the multiple biographies of the man. The director blended paternalism and cruelty as he tried to shape the appearance and performance of his lead actresses, and subjected their characters to varying but always intense degrees of psychosexual torment. During filming of The 39 Steps, for example, he shackled his two leads, Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll, together in handcuffs and refused to release them between takes when Carroll needed to use the bathroom. Before shooting Vertigo, he invited Novak over for dinner, where he proceeded to humiliate her by holding forth on fine art and wine, knowing full well that she might be uncomfortable given her working-class background. These were techniques for getting what he wanted to see on the screen, with seemingly little regard for how they would affect the actresses. Continued here � � � � � � Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke on Maori History and Engaging Youth in Politics - TIME    Last month’s elections in New Zealand heralded significant change, promising to bring to power the country’s most conservative government in decades. But alongside the rightward shift from six years of Labor Party leadership to an expected National Party-led coalition, the incoming parliament will also feature the most-ever Māori members, most of whom are in the opposition. It’s a striking contrast that 21-year-old Māori MP-elect Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, set to be New Zealand’s youngest lawmaker in 170 years, is well aware of. As race issues took center stage across the nation during election season, Maipi-Clarke’s family home was vandalized by a man who shouted slurs. Among the National Party’s priority plans is to ax the Māori Health Authority, which is tasked to bridge the gap between the health quality of indigenous and non-indigenous people. And the right-wing ACT Party, which is expected to partner with the National Party, had earlier proposed a referendum that would reconsider the role of the Māori people, who make up about 17% of the national population, in policymaking. Continued here � � � � � � India's Tata Technologies in talks with Morgan Stanley, US funds for IPO investment -sources - Reuters    The new logo of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building is seen in Mumbai, India, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights MUMBAI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - India's Tata Technologies is in talks with Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Blackrock and some U.S hedge funds to invest in its initial public offering at a valuation of $2.5 billion, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Part of conglomerate Tata Group, the company provides engineering services for companies in the auto and aerospace sectors among others. Its IPO will be the first in two decades for a Tata Group company, which has many listed businesses including in the auto and steel sectors. Continued here

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