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...Renaissance lairds, Scotland’s landed gentry, often considered fortification of their residences mainly a matter of pride or aesthetics....
...(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...
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...(FT) ‘Just Don’t’That was the message from Democrats to the former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz, who is flirting with the idea of a run at the presidency in 2020....
...For example, he cut across the usual competitor lines between external law firms in the HP v Oracle case....
...Greer also has to engage in a bit of sleight-of-chronology by having all her characters assume the presidential election is to be Clinton v Trump even months before the party conventions....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...In the meantime, it cannot afford to fall out with the deceptively cuddly-looking grocer to the gentry....
...But CCD, run by entrepreneur V.G....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...In the first two days, we would visit the surviving gentry houses of Stamford and the great palaces of the plutocrat nobility outside York, including Beningbrough and Castle Howard....
...That is, Target Corp v. Pershing Square....
...“There was an agrarian reform here in 1948,” Riso told me, as he worked on the habiliment of a Saint Anne, “but many of the grand houses in Lecce are still owned by the descendants of the old landed gentry...
...The graphic novelist Alan Moore took his name off V for Vendetta, and who can blame him?...
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