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...from his post as E.U. Trade Commissioner, and installed in the House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long...
...British press last year. It has been withdrawn from circulation. Old friends stick together, and none more so than Britons bonded through the shared experiences of class and education. One sign of the narrowness of Cameron's natural world: his wife Samantha, although the daughter of a baronet, is widely credited with being her husband's conduit to a more plural society. She's the creative director of stationer and luxury-goods firm Smythson's and, says one of Cameron's close colleagues, "She's very down to earth. She's mildly bohemian. She's quite liberal...
Britain's Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle - are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron's campaign team: "People sniff Camelot...
...story is just silly. A curse requires anyone who carries the title of the Baronet of Ruddigore to commit a crime daily on pain of death. Robin Oakapple (Benjamin T. Morris ’09), the rightful baronet is hiding, presumed dead, and thus free to shyly woo young Rose Maybud (Caitlin C. Vincent ’07) in a small town, while his younger brother bears the brunt of the curse. That is, until his adopted brother Richard Dauntless (Pedro K. Kaawaloa, Jr. ’06), a much bolder sailor who is prone to having audible conversations with...
Thursday, Dec. 1—Saturday, Dec. 10. Ruddisore. A country gentleman, discovered to be the cursed Baronet of Ruddigore, is doomed to do one evil deed every day, or accept his fate to perish. Agassiz Theatre. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...