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...Discussing The Unknown Known, his 2013 film about another US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, he reflects on the Ivy League backgrounds of the Republican establishment during the Iraq war....
...“The Ivy League look radiates timeless style,” says Paul Simons, co-owner of the Ivy League outfitter John Simons on London’s Chiltern Street....
...Simmons likes to joke that he learnt about the complexity of repeat patterns from designs by “the three Williams — Morris, Burges and de Morgan”....
...Named Queen Square after the Bloomsbury location where Ben lives and where Morris had a workshop and home, it comprises fabrics and wallpapers by Morris with zingy new colour combinations dreamt up by Ben...
...It has also been set by classical composers, including the 25 words of “Ivy” being transformed into a half-hour piece....
...Martha Minow Martha Minow, 63, served as dean of Harvard Law School from 2009 to 2017, having been a professor at the Ivy League institution since 1981....
...In late 2015, he launched “And Objects”, a collection inspired by furniture he featured in his design of Sexy Fish, Scott’s and The Ivy restaurants in London....
...Wild and unkempt, the thickets of ivy tumble out almost to the water’s edge....
...Both went to very select prep schools and on to the Ivy League, Yale and Princeton....
...Mary is describing a walled wilderness that has been kept under lock and key for a decade, a place where flowers carpet the floor and delphiniums grow in masses beneath knots of ivy....
...Anyone But Ivy Pocket, by Caleb Krisp, Bloomsbury, RRP£10.99/Greenwillow, RRP$17.99 Narrators don’t come much more unreliable than Ivy Pocket....
...Ms Schaja joins from Ivy Asset Management. ● Thanasis Petronikolos has moved from RAB Capital to join Baring Asset Management as a director in the fixed income and currency team....
...He is also the unacknowledged compiler of wine lists for a range of restaurants including The Ivy, Scott’s, Defune and Good Earth Group....
...But Richardson has the experience of the Ivy League on her side. When the top US universities severed ties with elitist male societies, endowments did not suffer....
...Nigel Morris, who co-founded the Capital One credit card group, lent £1m. Andrew Rosenfeld, another multi-millionaire businessman who sponsored a city academy, lent £1m....
...Peter Smart, head of Walker Morris, one of Leeds’ most successful law firms, agrees: “People have a lot of sympathy for Sir Ken.”...
...Morgan Stanley was one of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks, the ultimate "white-shoe" firm - a reference to the buckskin shoes favoured by Ivy League graduates in the 1920s....
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