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...Wall Street titans target their former universities For decades, Ivy League universities have courted the deep-pocketed financiers that once roamed their halls to feed their multibillion-dollar endowments...
...“I knew Columbia was the social justice Ivy,” one said. “But not this much social justice.”...
...Nieces and nephews get cash, which is all they want, and we try to get them something small — one year we did brush pots from Pentreath & Hall and everyone loved them....
...The effect of stone and fabric finishes is rendered with paint across the walls of the sitting room and entrance hall....
...Sutton also uses things from her garden: dried hydrangeas for the mantelpiece and ivy up the banister....
...Our summering world emits an energy of lush days spilling into one another and we’re stretched to entwine ourselves around summer’s mood like rapidly climbing ivy....
...Interviewing this celebrated interviewer, the mood can feel a little like a hall of mirrors....
...It is being built on the site of the old central police station and the recently demolished Reform synagogue, close to Alfred Waterhouse’s spectacular Victorian gothic town hall....
...I like a garland made from fir or pine, and into this I’ll weave holly and ivy, maybe some eucalyptus....
...In the grand panelled dining hall, swags of bay and ivy adorned a hefty mantelpiece during a midwinter feast; it was meant to be from 400 years ago but, with the right filter, it could have been among the...
...Licht justified the Trump town hall show as putting CNN itself in the news....
...Her latest metalwork design, which launches in April, is an oval wall-hung candle wreath composed of brass garlands of climbing English ivy....
...As Avery Trufelman aptly notes in the newest season of her podcast Articles of Interest, so-called “Ivy” and prep icons, such as Ralph Lauren, have long chased that old-school British charm, no matter how...
...While I was waiting, I had time to digest the finery of the space, the circular trading hall of what used to be Manchester’s stock exchange....
...“I’ll have my coloured lights and leftover gingerbreads from a display we’re doing at the London Marriott hotel County Hall,” he says. “Hopefully they won’t be stale.”...
...Since writer John Lanchester is no longer booking what he calls RFKACAK (“Restaurants Formerly Known As Corbin And King”), he’s been enjoying new arrivals like JKS’s Arcade Food Hall in London’s Centre Point...
...Pioneered by elite East Coast American students who desired clothing that could take them from the lecture hall to the sports field, it was later adopted by John F Kennedy, Steve McQueen and jazz musicians...
...Irving Place is a beautiful, leafy little avenue, with generous coats of ivy crawling up its stone and brick façades....
...Aside from a beautiful Victorian skylight in the hall, all the original features and fireplaces had been stripped out....
...The roughly 150 beneficiaries of Jakob’s bequest live in 67 terraced houses covered in ochre-coloured stucco and ivy, in a walled site near the city’s medieval heart....
...During a tour one is typically ushered through manicured quads and ivy-covered halls by minders recruited by the admissions office....
...To one side, there is a sofa where he frequently sleeps, even though his bedroom is down the hall....
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