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...Lady of the Manor persona she has assumed since marrying British director Guy Ritchie has had its ups and downs for MADONNA. After recently starting riding lessons, she took a nasty tumble off an unfamiliar horse on Aug. 16, cracking three ribs and breaking a collarbone and a hand. Now recuperating at her country home outside London, plucky Madge still plans to release her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, on schedule in November, but she just may have to stick to low-impact clubbing for a while...
...stories go on, few about solving murders in manor houses and many about fatal traffic accidents, violent drunks and old people who died ten days ago in furnished rooms. There are quite a few about nearly getting killed and about drinking too much. Some tell about sleaziness, and a surprising number about honor. Most of them, Baker says, begin something like this: "I know it sounds corny as hell, but I really thought I could help people...
Last summer, Le Goues made the 25-minute drive each day from her home in Cortlandt Manor, NY to a research lab in Hawthorne, NY, where she worked from nine to five as a programmer for International Business Machines (IBM). IBM is one of several producers of personal computers (PCs) that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. These Windows PCs are the main competition for Macs...
...Manner v. Manor...
...English expression is, properly, "to the manor born" - implying a natural inherited talent for the particular accomplishment under discussion. It is most frequently employed to connote social grace or charm...