Imagine an elite professional services firm with a high-performing, workaholic culture.
But now the salt and pepper elite are facing competition from young pretenders who are paying to turn grey.
At Harvard, Emory, Bucknell and other schools around the country, there have been record numbers of applicants yearning for an elite degree.
There are hopeful voices among China's travel elite.
They argue that people who want us to listen to symhonies are advocating a kind of "elite culture".
The Legendary fantasy film, which is being touted as the largest film ever shot entirely in China for global distribution, centers on an elite force making a last stand for humanity on the iconic Great Wall in China.
" From 2008 to 2012, Dumas claims he did stints on a number of elite North American universities—Yale, Brown, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and McGill, to name a few—sitting in on classes, attending parties, and living near campus as if he were an enrolled student.
2 million viewers a night last year — has been a humorous release valve for politically frustrated (often left-leaning) viewers and a bête noire of (often right-leaning) critics who saw him as a member of the liberal media elite.
If you are an elite entrepreneur, you don't go into anything cold.
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has issued increasingly pointed warnings to his subjects about the "poisonous elements of capitalism" crossing China's border with the North, tempting even his Communist elite.
Over the last decade, many elite colleges have adjusted their applications in ways that remove disincentives and maximize the odds that the number of students jockeying to get in remains robust — or, even better, grows larger.
The historian, a teacher at an elite private school, advised a recent American studies Ph.
The historian, a teacher at an elite private school, advised a recent American studies Ph.
They are prized by the Thai elite, who offer gan yao durians, a delectable variety with a long stem, as gifts to business partners or senior government officials.
At one bakery in Florida, Elite Cake Creations in Cooper City, near Miami, they are now getting three to four requests for divorce cakes each month.
For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard — or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges — than it was when today's 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying.
They were not paid tosell bodies; instead, geishas were considered beauty-obsessed elite.
This raises the bar for all cities that wish to break into this elite club.
The elite Episcopal School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, for example, which costs $14,500 a year, is housed in an elegant seven-story townhouse.
" Relay China Youth Elite Association, which was founded in Shanghai in 2008, has 200 members.
