It is an enduring mystery how the resource-rich, reputation-challenged and goodwill-needy UBS could so badly fumble the most elemental form of research concerning a globally revered icon.
In today's Web 3.0 personal data rich economy, reputation is replacing cash, Fertik believes.
This time, it is the rich whose reputations have been damaged.
Earlier this year, George Washington University was featured in the Washington Post as trying to buck its "rich-kid reputation".
(Let it be said, though, that Hemingway's money troubles must have been exhausting to live through: he was never nearly as rich as his reputation would make you think).
Last Action Hero, Waterworld, Pearl Harbor, John Carter – their names are legend, like the wreck of the Hesperus, radiating their own beached, inverted glamour, their undoing the stuff of bestselling books and magazine exposés, their critical reputation rich pickings for the revisionists who nibble at the reef like fish.
Beyond the embassy is the rest of Mayfair, where businesses are discreet, ethics are flexible, and rich people with reputations to upgrade are in increasingly plentiful supply.
The controversy comes at a delicate time for the oil-rich Emirates, whose reputation for tolerance and soaring financial success has already been tarnished in recent months by a collapsing real estate boom and a crackdown on the foreign news media.
In recent years, London has become a more segregated place, its reputation for rich and poor living cheek by jowl on the corners of fashionable streets eroded by cash-strapped councils selling off estates to developers and relocating poorer inhabitants to the margins – or out of the city altogether.
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