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...Mark Stanley dons the sofa-sized shoulder pads as a king whose changing moods are more muddy than mercurial, churning slowly across a sly, sweaty countenance....
...I went there on the Harkness fellowship in health policy and we’re still collaborating 25 years later. She’s so generous with her time and talent....
...We slept and ate in halls built to realise Edward Harkness’s dream of replicating Oxford in America....
...Then, in 1936, US adventurer Ruth Harkness sparked a wave of panda-mania after she smuggled a live baby panda disguised as a puppy to the US....
...James Harkness’s chirpy, bolshie Clark, the most immediately likeable character, explains that past and future don’t exist: “There’s just this second, right now, as I’m saying it it’s dying, it’s gone.”...
...Mr Steinert says: “If you don’t have the data, you can’t have an objective and comprehensive basis to make . . . assessments and target the area you need to fix.”...
...The billionaire is well known for his taste for buying expensive Manhattan apartments, having set a record at the time with his 2006 purchase of the 20,000 sq ft Harkness mansion on the Upper East Side for...
...Essentially cerebral, he would have made an ideal don and it was the dons who taught him at Oxford, including Marcus Dick and E.H. Carr, that he seemed most to resemble....
...When Mr Harkness said to Ralph: “You have high expectations, don’t you?” our dealings with GOSH pretty well ended....
...Frustrated, he won a Harkness fellowship to the US, completing a master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
...“When I tell friends back east or abroad that we’re the oldest company in America, they simply don’t believe it,” says Tomasson in his uncluttered office on an uncharacteristically calm hour on a Saturday...
...Mr Harkness, who came in as executive chairman, held a 9 per cent stake in the business. “I am pretty happy to share their vision of a short- to medium-term return, and most people don’t like that....
...Last year, it gave about $50,000 to the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at the Hospital for Joint Diseases on behalf of the Fokine Fund....
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