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...At a smart New York lunch the other day, the conversation turned to the emotive subject of elite university admissions....
...Smart reads Declawed Not long ago, “cubs” of Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management dominated the hedge fund industry....
...Legal ethics During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle far beyond what his income could provide....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Clarence Kwok as a managing director on its M&A team with a focus on north Asia. Kwok previously was a senior M&A banker for Morgan Stanley focused on China....
...Smart reads Call it a comeback After serving time in prison for bankruptcy fraud, Dan Kamensky has re-emerged as a thought leader offering wisdom to the distressed debt world, DD’s Sujeet Indap writes....
...Smart reads The Mooch’s money problems Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital was already spiralling from bad crypto bets. Then FTX came along. Bloomberg surveys the damage....
...I can’t make out through the alcoholic haze if we start with octopus, one of the few creatures smart enough to hold a grudge, and move on to foie gras, or vice versa....
...And in the FT, don’t miss former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson’s must-read profile of Clarence Thomas and what he says about today’s Supreme Court....
...There is a pleasant little harbour with some smart boats, the sort you have if you own a car dealership or a carpet showroom, rather than the kind governments are trying to impound....
...About 200 years ago, one of the largest houses in the area was built in Clarence Road by the master builder and developer of Belgravia, Thomas Cubitt, for his own family....
...We have smart medical people, we see the data just like the CDC, and we’re going to figure out what’s best for Florida,’” Clark said....
...He thinks OKA, Annabel Astor’s smart Fulham Road shop, is safe interiors territory for young Sloanes....
...The smart money now appears to be tilting towards the latter....
...It is a new wave, articulate and smart. They’ve taken a sledgehammer to the consciousness of the new Ireland.”...
...But the attitudes expressed by the couple’s patronising friends (Lucy Eaton and Clarence Smith) and Bri’s mother (Patricia Hodge) are still unnerving....
...“He’s a smart guy. He's a caring guy. And I know he can do the job,” Ms Bowser said. “Biden talks about unity, let's work together....
...The two top whites from the Clarence Dillon stable — Haut-Brion Blanc and La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc — were distinctly superior, as well they might be at the price....
...With a rejuvenated city centre and smattering of smart Georgian houses, Exeter in Devon has become a honeypot for London leavers....
...Prince Robert de Luxembourg of Château Haut-Brion has been expending considerable energy on Le Clarence, a smart Michelin-starred restaurant and upmarket wine shop in Paris....
...When the Prince of Wales turned 65 in 2013, Clarence House said he was donating his state pension to a charity for older people....
...The dress code is smart casual....
...Another example is Clarence House, a seven-bedroom property, which sold last year for more than £13m....
...Prada, who credits her famously fiery rapport with Bertelli for driving her forward, opened her first New York store in 1986 selling handbags and smart luggage....
...This year’s extended winter saw energy use tick up, the royal household accounts show, but it might have been worse had meters not been put on everything from the main boilers at Buckingham Palace, to Clarence...
...chance that future generations will look back on Mr Netanyahu as a man who fatally undermined the Jewish state – by failing to answer the big questions about its future.”At the US Supreme Court, Justice Clarence...
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