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...prizewinning Casse-Tête can be yours for $95,200. THE RETREAT www.retreathomes.co.uk You can't see the wheels or the chassis, but they're there. The Retreat is really an upscale trailer in disguise and does not require a building permit. You can plop it in your garden as a guesthouse, perhaps, or take it anywhere you would a mobile home. Hip features? Teak sink surrounds, oak plank flooring and optional hot tub. Prices start...
...acted less as exemplars than as reality-TV stars is due largely to the Queen. She may be remote, but her dedication to duty gets widespread respect. It could hardly be otherwise. Since 1952, she has received more than 3 million letters, hosted around 1.1 million guests at her garden parties, and made 256 official overseas visits to 129 countries. Asked to explain his mother's relationship with the country, Prince Andrew says: "It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form, but I would put her appeal down to consistency...
...Buckingham Palace are increasingly built around themes, like honoring transport workers and members of the emergency services after the London bombings of July 2005. She has aligned the palace with the modern world in other barely perceptible steps: relaxing the rules for the 30,000 invitees to her garden parties so that men needn't spend money on a morning suit, and chucking out the old rule that restricted state banquets to married apparent heterosexuals. Malcolm Ross, a kind of chief of protocol in the Lord Chamberlain's Office for 14 years, says the Queen takes a seriously pragmatic approach...
...Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof lead coat—in 1884. He is never required to outrun a speeding bullet or stop the passage of time, but it wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise if he could...
...personal warmth, strong intellectual honesty, absence of self-centeredness, and the fact that he was interested in the students seemed to come through to them,” he said. Norman A. Berg, emeritus professor of business administration, walked to HBS each morning with Thurston from their neighboring Garden Street apartments when both men taught at the school. “I don’t think he really sought outside recognition or approval,” said Berg last week. “He was very happy to devote his time to his students and to his classes...