Word: cavendish
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Saddam's other "enemy" lives 2,000 miles away in an 18th century town house on London's fashionable Cavendish Square. It looks more like the corporate digs of a leveraged-buyout firm than the headquarters of a guerrilla movement. Instead of AK-47s and Molotov cocktails, No. 17 Cavendish Square boasts fully equipped offices with ergonomic furniture, fresh-cut flowers and expensive prints hanging on the walls. For a suite on its second floor, the U.S. State Department pays more than $200 a sq. ft. annually, according to documents obtained by TIME--double what most empty modern office space...
...ferocious outfit called Quality Support Inc., of Springfield, Va., for example, has received $3.1 million to book hotel rooms, airline tickets and conference halls for opposition meetings. Of that, a State Department document estimates that Quality Support will spend about $670,000 for the seven-month lease at the Cavendish Square office and for three company staff members to work there. (Quality Support declined to comment on its contract...
Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish [*] 1920-1948 Widowed but in love, she died with her intended in a small plane...
...scientists may have cloned a sheep using DNA, but it was Crick and Watson who first introduced us to DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Crick, a Brit, was an inveterate scientific tinkerer as a boy. Watson, a Chicago native, won his degrees in zoology. In 1953 both were researchers at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where they identified the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecular substance that makes possible the transmission of inherited characteristics. In 1976 Crick joined the Salk Institute and geared his energies toward exploring the workings of the brain, including short- and long-term memory...
...lanky sort-of-beauty to an exclusive contract for its ready-to-wear line. "She has the perfect look for now," says Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. "She has a natural arrogance without seeming aggressive." If that's true, she came by it honestly. Her grandfather is Lord Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and she's the great-niece of novelist Nancy Mitford. Tennant, who has been a model for only two years, has something else few of her runway associates have: an art-school degree. She studied sculpture, to which she wants to return...