Another client, Lynne Choo-Choy, a Lebanese-British lawyer, hired Mr. Pellizzoni to design her country house.

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Choy, a Hawaii-based restaurateur and cookbook author, is behind some of the premium-class menus on American's routes to China and Japan.

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Choo-Choy's six-bedroom home in Godalming, a country town outside London, Mr. Pellizzoni placed a stag's head over a fireplace and mounted about a dozen masks, collected from her travels to India and Africa, on a wall.

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Pericles Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was tapped Wednesday to head Yale-NUS as president, while a professor from the National University of Singapore, Lai Choy Heng, was named vice president.

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He offers me broths of freshly harvested sweet-potato greens and baby bok choy, and though the air we breathe in here is itself a kind of broth, I sip them gratefully.

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