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...Hemings trained in Paris, then cooked at Jefferson’s home Monticello for America’s revolutionary elite....
...Barclays had taken a plunge by acquiring the US parts of Lehman Brothers when the investment bank imploded in 2008, but the deal quickly became a deadweight dragging the British bank down as well....
...Age: 61 Born: Monticello, New York Marital status: Married, four children, three grandchildren Education: Wharton, Harvard Business School Hobbies: Golfing, skiing, driving restored vintage cars Rich...
...Mr Corley compared these fires with Napa’s 2014 earthquake, which the Silicon Valley Bank estimated caused $80m worth of damage to the wine industry....
...Best of all are the passages on his childhood, spent mostly in Monticello, a small village in the Catskills....
...Starting out in finance at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1976, he later joined the brokerage, Paine Webber, overseeing the acquisition of Kidder Peabody....
...“The last few years have been the golden age of farming,” says Terry Lieb, who farms 3,000 acres outside Monticello with his two sons....
...Jefferson’s Monticello, London’s Chiswick House and dozens of others were versions of Palladio’s villa – which was itself a mash-up of the Pantheon and various Roman temple fronts....
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