The vast majority of chief executives of big firms hail from one of a handful of grandes écoles, such as École Polytechnique, an elite science school.
It is a 1,200-mile 1,200-mileut for some of the team's members, that is an almost incidental distance compared with how far they are from their homelands: they hail from four continents, five if you count their parents.
Mr. Jonathan, the first president who does not hail from one of Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups — he's an Ijaw from the Niger Delta — may well be the right man to navigate the tricky rapids and falls ahead.
MOSCOW — The Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov may hail from one of the Russian intelligentsia's most famous families, but he has become the target of barbs over a rambling political manifesto and of angry street demonstrations by his neighbors.
My husband does not keep kosher, but I hail from one of the most superstitious strains of Roman Catholicism (the Sicilian), and I worried that knowingly serving pork to Jews on Passover might be some sort of mortal sin.
These players, who hail from five continents, would not need to put the sport in such terms in their home countries, where handball — the preface "team" exists only in the United States — is popular.
MUSEO DEL BARRIO Fifth Ave. at 104th St. (212-831-7272) — It's upsetting that participating artists in "The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)" hail from seven countries, indicating how widespread the repression of dissent was in Latin America from the fifties through the eighties (Argentina's "dirty war" alone is estimated to have killed as many as thirty thousand people).
The dozen finalists, who hail from eight different nations, used a wide variety of dance styles to explain their research, including modern, ballroom, aerial silks, and even acrobatic pole dancing.
Once upon a time, a pharmaceutical CEO who did not hail from one of the creative parts of the drug business would have been met with skepticism on Wall Street.
They hail from four different nations and have lived all over the world.
