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Iona Lott taught school, and the kids who sat in her classes and visited her home say they can see in Trent her cheerful toughness and her obsessive tidiness. Lott's wife, the former Tricia Thompson, was the oldest of six children and says she "didn't keep house the way Trent was used to." Even in Washington, she once said with a shrug, he vacuums the house "because he doesn't like the way I do it." Lott also re-irons his shirts to get rid of the little wrinkles they pick up on the way back from...
...John Docherty, general manager of the Hong Kong SAR Brewing Company, can relate. He knows how difficult it is for microbreweries to find their niche in a macrobrew region. Founded in 1996, his is one of the oldest microbreweries in Asia and does most of its business supplying Hong Kong pubs with exclusive microbrews; he began exporting its popular Dragon's Back Ale and Premium Gold Lager outside Hong Kong only a few months ago. Though the company has expanded its production, the focus is on providing diversity to local tipplers stuck in an unimaginative market. "With most bartenders...
British explorer and industrialist Cecil B. Rhodes endowed the Rhodes Scholarships in his will in 1902, making the Rhodes the oldest international scholarships for American students...
...vote by the University’s oldest governing board ends a moratorium begun last year on new degree-granting programs with a distance learning component that violated the rule. University President Lawrence H. Summers established the moratorium after discovering the violation...
Chapa says he was raised in a blue-collar neighborhood “on the bad side of town” in Arlington, Texas. The oldest of seven children, he is also the first member of his family to attend college...