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...Harold J Smith White Plains, NY, US...
...fails majority / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...One thing to start: If you have been following Bill Ackman’s activist campaign against the leadership of Ivy League universities, you may enjoy this quiz from our friends over at FT Alphaville....
...Yet after a sparkling run, in which some of the great arts interviews were recorded — look up the one with Harold Pinter, for instance — his South Bank Show was cut....
...But Hamm is not a typical American corporate titan with an Ivy League background or MBA. His geological knowledge was self-taught....
...But it’s otherwise hard to imagine a greater contrast than that between Hamm, the self-made Oklahoman born into poverty, and Kerry, the French-speaking Ivy League-graduate who oozes East Coast elite status...
...Sadness runs throughout the album: on “Ivy Ladder” she laments that “these always were my favourite jeans, they just don’t fit no more”; “All Seems Better” is a plea for daybreak set to eerie electric violin...
...The Ivy League anti-Semite made Gatsby’s Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfsheim more sympathetic than the preppy Tom Buchanan, and Fitzgerald’s obsessive hinterland — his sometimes half-baked ideas as well as his...
...There, he was one of the first British economists to learn about game theory, which had been pioneered at the Ivy League university by mathematicians John von Neumann and John Nash....
...He continues: “So I then went over to the Ivy where Harold was having dinner and clearly there was something going on and he said, ‘Oh yes, Jeremy, I’m glad I’ve seen you. I wanted to talk to you....
...“Even Artichokes Have Doubts” (the whimsical title suggests the influence of David Foster Wallace) was about the career choices of elite Ivy League graduates....
...Like the garden designer Harold Peto’s home at Iford Manor, laid out in Wiltshire around the turn of the 20th century, Little Sparta feels choked with experiments....
...Unlike Mr Bush, who was born to an elite family and had an Ivy League education, Mr Perry, 61, has humbler origins....
...Ivy League colleges fulfil a similar social function to English public schools. This seems true up to a point....
...Wolkonsky, too, loved England and befriended a great generation of tree-planters across the Channel, especially the incomparable Harold Hillier, king of trees and shrubs....
...matriarch (Lady Maud Holland, played by Eileen Atkins), the rebellious young aristocrat (Lady Agnes’s sister, Persie, who flirts with Oswald Mosley’s fascists) and the spirited, ambitious young servant (Ivy...
...Four-square, stone-built and ivy-clad, the Temple Bar Inn dominates the centre of the village of Ewyas Harold. The building has been a pub since the 1850s....
...She is calming,” said Harold Ford, an investment banker and former Tennessee congressman who was an early supporter. “She doesn’t allow the highs to be too high or the lows too low.”...
...Harold now lives in Manhattan....
...J Sheekey, Le Caprice and The Ivy also receive late-night visits. “I eat any old crap,” Gambon says, but he selects with care the places he eats it in....
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