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...Parnell, who was among the pre-eminent figures in modern Irish nationalism, hailed from the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry....
...In addition to Körner, the only other Credit Suisse executive board members still employed by UBS are André Helfenstein, who ran the domestic business; Christine Graeff, the head of people; and Nita Patel...
...Ambani’s wife Nita — who recently stepped down from Reliance’s board and is now focused on the family’s charitable and cultural projects — was appointed chair of the new entity, while Shankar was made vice-chair...
...“That means a longer time to develop these conditions that increase your mortality and reduce your life expectancy,” said Nita Gandhi Forouhi, professor of the MRC Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge university...
...What might have become a diffuse collection of social-historical anecdotes gains narrative momentum from Muir’s decision to structure his book like a marriage....
...Their mother Nita will step down from her seat to focus on her work with Reliance’s charity....
...In December, Van Hagen’s career will take another turn: he is curating an institutional show of Pop art at the newly opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai....
...The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A Farahany (St Martin’s Press) Recent advances in neurotechnology are bringing much-needed relief to...
...Nita Swinsick, associate dean for graduate and executive degree programme admissions at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, in Washington DC, says: “I think we’ll continue to see that trend...
...a subsidiary of UBS during the integration process....
...For Chris Mullin, pottering in a much-loved garden leaves room for an agreeable merry-go-round of literary festivals and elegant gatherings hosted by the landed gentry....
...They have scattered as far as Siberia and Bolivia, arriving on Peipus’ western side when it was under Swedish rule, along with German gentry....
...Tech zillionaires, Hollywood moguls, blue bloods of the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront, double-barrelled British gentry, oligarchs, King Salman’s assorted cousins....
...The waitresses were dressed to resemble nannies, the kind who might once have instructed the captains of industry and landed gentry who dine here to finish their greens or else....
...think much of democracy) or perhaps in the newly independent American Republic after the Revolutionary War in which the franchise was purposely skewed in favour of small class of landed and commercial gentry...
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...Born into the Kent gentry (his father was a judge, eventually a Lord), Tomlin was sent to Harrow, where he dazzled with his promise....
...for private, or clandestine, performances by the local Catholic gentry....
...exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre curated by World of Interiors editor Hamish Bowles....
...He also likened some longstanding moderators to “landed gentry”....
...Renaissance lairds, Scotland’s landed gentry, often considered fortification of their residences mainly a matter of pride or aesthetics....
...The neuroscientist Nita Farahany, professor of law and philosophy at Duke University, agrees....
...Born into a family of minor gentry in about 1527 on the site of Hardwick Old Hall, Elizabeth Hardwick (Bess) accumulated wealth and status to rise to the top of Elizabethan society....
...Coflein, the database for the National Monuments Record of Wales, describes it as “an ambitious gentry house of renaissance character”....
...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
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