Word: knights
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...very serious about his work, trying to forge a path like that of Sean Penn or Jack Nicholson, trying to walk the line between what the studios wanted him to be (a romantic hero such as those he played in 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, his first two big hits) and the more renegade figures he was drawn to (Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, the iconic Australia outlaw in Ned Kelly or the junkie in Candy). "I wanted to scrub it all away," he said of his early forays into stardom, "and start...
...town house that has an air of the Empire about it, even though its owners do not. The house - which has eight bedrooms and six bathrooms spread over six floors, an elevator and a garden - belongs to a Swiss family who, according to Tom Tangney, estate agent for realtor Knight Frank, make their money in finance. Tired of paying the upkeep on a place they hardly use, they've put it on the market for $18.5 million. And at that price, "I expect the buyer will also be non-British," says Tangney...
...Whether they come from Russia, India, Asia or America, wealthy foreigners head for just a clutch of the city's most prestigious addresses. The U.K.'s housing market is slowing, but so far sales of premier homes have been unaffected, realtors say. According to Knight Frank, demand for homes in neighborhoods such as Belgravia, where Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich lives, Knightsbridge, the home of Harrods, and Mayfair, where the black-Amex set get their suits made at Savile Row, pushed the prices of prime real estate up by almost 40% between the summer of 2006 and summer...
During the decades that the concept of human nature was taboo in academia, many scholars claimed that romantic love was a recent social construction. It was an invention of the Hallmark-card poets or Hollywood scriptwriters or, in one theory, medieval troubadours extolling the adulterous love of a knight for a lady...
...making him officially more badass than 50 Cent. CON: Is approximately 132 years old. Fred Thompson (Senator from Tennesse PRO: Sexiest would-be First Lady. CON: We’re just really sick of Law and Order. Rudy Giuliani (Mayor of New York City) PRO: Is an honorary knight. CON: Would probably lose in a joust to John McCain. Ron Paul (Representative from Texas) PRO: Supports legalization of medicinal marijuana—and we thought term-billing massages at UHS was awesome. CON: Libertarianism is SO Junior High...