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MARIANO RUBINACCI is as synonymous with his hometown of Naples as are Marinella ties and Margherita pizza. The only difference is that Rubinacci makes bespoke suits, not pies. His claim to fame, as clients like Jacob Rothschild, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Barry Diller will tell you, is the loose-fitting, high-armhole Neapolitan jacket. He also makes bespoke shoes, shirts and vicuńa coats...
DIED. BETTY LESLIE-MELVILLE, 78, conservationist who spent much of her life creating sanctuaries in Africa in a successful push to save the Rothschild's giraffe, a white-legged subspecies, from extinction; in Baltimore, Md. She and her husband, whose house in Kenya often had giraffes poking their heads in the windows, helped raise the breed's population from 120 in the 1960s...
Recent star-hire Niall Ferguson, a professor of history and author of the best-selling books, “Colossus,” “House of Rothschild,” and “Empire,” will teach his first courses at the College next spring, when he will offer both History 10b, “Western Economies, Societies, and Polities from 1648 to the Present” and, with Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier, History 1965, “International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy: Conference Course...
...Meanwhile, at Courtis' urging, CNOOC's board insisted on hiring an outside investment bank?NM Rothschild & Sons?and an energy consulting firm to do their own independent evaluation of the deal, in the hope that the board and Fu might eventually find some common ground. But Schurtenberger wasn't going to stick around for the results. On April 4, he submitted his resignation from the board in writing, citing health reasons. (He has had prostate cancer for many years.) When Courtis failed to appear on the dais at the annual shareholders' meeting the next month in Hong Kong, it caused...
...only whispered: the dominant powers of France, threatened by Germany, narcotized by visions of a glorious and irretrievable past, regarded Jews as dual threats. In one view, they were radicals seeking to undo the state. When that label did not adhere, they were vicious usurers, arms of the Rothschild octopus. The climate of xenophobia was intensified behind barracks doors , where a rising Jewish officer was considered an insult to history and an affront to destiny...