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...Embassy has been located at Grosvenor Square through generations of pomp and changing circumstance. In 1968 it was a focal point of anti-Vietnam War protests; after the September 11 attacks, it drew ire from local residents worried it could draw terrorist bombs. Through it all, the Mayfair edifice was the site of lively parties for London's chattering classes and influential leaders passing through. All that is due to change, though, with the announcement that the U.S. Embassy plans to relocate across the Thames to a place whose very name reflects a rougher and more industrial tone: the Nine...
...This has been a long and careful process," U.S. Ambassador Robert Tuttle said in a statement yesterday. "We looked at all of our options, including renovation of our current building in Grosvenor Square. In the end, we realized that the goal of a modern, secure and environmentally sustainable embassy could best be met by constructing a new facility...
What's so American about This American Life? Emily Grosvenor IOWA CITY, IOWA...
...simply and unadorned, claims that she “won’t go to bed until I’m head over heels in love.” Her wishes are immediately answered with the arrival of the second poet, the “idyllic” Archibald Grosvenor (Matthew I. Bohrer ’10) who calls himself a “trustee of beauty.” When the maidens encounter this new embodiment of perfection, the tempo accelerates and some excellently choreographed chaos erupts on stage. Bohrer’s Archibald was brilliant in his vanity...
...kill requires access to a high-security nuclear laboratory - were found at a sushi restaurant called Itsu in Piccadilly where Litvinenko had eaten lunch on the day he got sick. Traces of the isotope were also found at his north London home and at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, which he had also visited...