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...marriage with three people: Georgiana, her husband, and her husband’s live-in mistress. The Duchess Georgiana, played by Keira Knightley, consoles herself by taking a dashing young lover, flaunting the newest fashions, and schmaltzing her way to the top of London society. The real-life Georgiana Cavendish was a relative of Princess Diana, a fact the filmmakers make sure to exploit. However, linking the story to Diana of Wales will not make this 18th century romp any more successful, nor will it evoke any more sympathy for its wronged society beauty than it would for anyone else...
...Marshall Cavendish...
...Wildly excited, two men dashed out of a side door of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory ... and ducked into the Eagle, a pub where generations of Cambridge scientists have met to gossip about experiments and celebrate triumphs. Over drinks, James D. Watson, then 24, and Francis Crick, 36, talked excitedly, Crick's booming voice damping out conversations among other Eagle patrons. When friends stopped to ask what the commotion was all about, Crick did not mince words. 'We,' he announced exultantly, 'have discovered the secret of life!' Brave words?and in a sense, incredibly true ... On that late winter...
...time when new diseases menace the very survival of the Cavendish variety of banana we eat every day, responsible production is the only sure way of guaranteeing that the next species of consumer banana doesn’t meet the same fate. Harvard students should do their part in the global fight for progressive, sustainable and responsible agriculture by insisting that Fair Trade bananas join their Mountain-grown, caffeinated coffee bean cohorts in all Harvard dining halls...
DIED. ANDREW ROBERT BUXTON CAVENDISH, 84, the elegant and modest 11th Duke of Devonshire, who held on to his ancestors' grand lifestyle by turning the 16th century Chatsworth estate owned by his family for 14 generations into one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions; in Derbyshire, England. Thought to be wealthier than the Queen, Sir Andrew paid off $20 million in inheritance taxes by selling tens of thousands of acres of land and art from his large collection to set up a trust that financed his mansion's maintenance...