Word: manors
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Five years after their marriage ended amid tabloid tales of toe sucking, Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, live with their daughters, now 12 and 11, in the same 20-room manor the Queen gave the couple as a wedding present. This winter the Yorks vacationed together in Switzerland. "The welfare and lives of the children are of paramount importance," explains David Pogson, a spokesman for the Duke of York. Two years after their marriage was annulled, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall are once again sharing meals--though not bedrooms--in Hall's home outside...
...Russia develop itself as a technology hub? Israeli venture capitalist Eliezer Manor, a keynote speaker at the Russian Technology Investment Forum in Moscow this month, urged companies to start by partnering with more established counterparts in India and Israel. Thomas Nastas, the forum's organizer, said European companies should be considered too: "Partnering is the name of the game." At the Russian Internet Forum, also in March, Andrei Zotov, chief executive of V6 (www.v6.ru), which helps corporations set up business processes on the Web, described how it was expanding its operations with P2P, its French partner. "I don't believe...
...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
...makes the game, hung around to be sure West didn't stray too far from the Croft mythology. Adrian Smith, the man who first typed the code that brought Lara into being nine years ago, traveled to the London set to give his blessing. Smith was impressed that Croft Manor's Old Library was stuffed with genuine, dusty old books on archaeology that visitors to the set could actually pick off the shelf and read...
...there are changes in the way Croft goes about her business. Far from being a full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer prizewinning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor). And rather than spending the whole movie in the game's traditional green tank top and khaki shorts, Jolie goes through 13 costume changes, including an Eskimo parka and a monk's robe. While sweating it out on the steamy, mosquito-ridden Angkor Wat temple set in Siem Reap, Cambodia...