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...mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin was a tenant in a simple four-story Georgian brick row house on a street off the Strand near Trafalgar Square. The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned." On Jan. 17, the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, the famed inventor-diplomat's sole surviving home will open to the public...
...thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here, we say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, there's a Chinese proverb that says the loudest duck gets shot.") At the boot camp, Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her land a tough assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...trials finally ended when a Catholic priest was implicated as the brains behind the fires. Justice Horsmanden could crow, “the Old proverb has herein … been verified That there is Scarce a plot but a priest is at the Bottom of it.” Burton suddenly “remembered” the presence of a priest at Hughson’s, and other witnesses were mustered who agreed. The priest was hanged. When Burton started remembering that “People in Ruffles”–influential men who were held...
...powerful Cornish family and sully the reputation of the Cornish Trust, one of Canada's most respectable financial institutions. Worse, the aspiring biographer must admit that he cannot determine the influences that molded his man. Research has led only to the impenetrable mystery suggested by the old English proverb: "What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh." The scholar despairs: "What's bred in the bone! Oh, what was bred in the bone...
...brief message drew some revealing responses from Moscow's people. Said Larissa, 27, a textile-factory administrator: "We have a Russian proverb that goes, 'After 40 years of life, you will start paying for your actions in your face.' The lines in [Reagan's] face reflected good--not the evil that we've been led to expect ... I really think that seeing him for three minutes is worth more than hearing about him for 30 years...