The billion-dollar brain THE Tommy Quinn affair has been described as the biggest investment scandal since Robert Vesco looted Investors Overseas Services (IOS), the mutual-fund group, in the early 1970s. It is probably bigger. In a fraud nicknamed Euroscam by police and...

Byline: DARREN BEHAR THE exclusively male ranks of the world's leading oil executives have finally been breached by a woman - who has won the top financial post at Shell. Judy Boynton takes over as finance director of the Anglo-Dutch giant...

[The story of Billion Dollar Brain is apparently as confusing to the central character, Harry Palmer,] as it is to us. He drifts through the whole thing looking at times bewildered, at times merely bored, and quite honestly I wasn't surprised…. Particularly sad is that this hotch-potch is directed by Ken Russell…. He has always embraced the complex structure in his work, and he is one of the few genuine stylists working in the British cinema. Nevertheless, I would rather have seen him t...