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...since 1995 4 Number of the five richest people in Britain who were not born in the U.K.; the Duke of Westminster, with an estimated worth of $12 billion on the 2006 list, comes in fifth behind foreign-born residents such as Mittal and Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich...
...debit card since their launch a year ago. By launching local-language websites, teams can tailor marketing to fit an individual country, drumming up local advertising and sponsorship revenue. As part of its lofty pledge to become the world's biggest club by 2014, Chelsea, owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, launched a Mandarin website in January in conjunction with Sina, China's leading portal; in late March, the club unveiled another aimed at South Korea. The London team is also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian...
...Roman gallery...
...When you are coming out of the elevator bank, you see trees and also a park,” Maki said. Meanwhile, another side is an “entirely different sort of environment, more vibrant.” Maki ended with the famous words of Roman architect Vitruvius, who wrote that a structure must exhibit the qualities of utilitas, firmitas, venustas—translated as “useful, strong, and beautiful.” But Maki said that by venustas Vitruvius really meant “delight.” “Beauty is subject to time...
Unfortunately for you prefrosh who will decide to come to Harvard, all great empires (Roman, British, Ottoman, Yankees) must enter decline. Next year will be recorded as marking the beginning of Harvard’s linoleum era. What can we say? Things were just better when we were prefrosh. Coming to Harvard after us is like inheriting the Roman Empire after the Antonine dynasty. If you don’t understand the allusion, it’s ok. When we were freshmen, we got it. Likewise, our folders were crimson, not red, Cambridge never had weather below 70 degrees, Nobel...