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Prince Charles is to abandon legal moves to save his sons millions of dollars in inheritance taxes following the death of Princess Diana, reports People Daily...
...Pocahontas, Disney almost seems to be at pains to abandon the few facts that we do know about Pocahontas' life--she appears as a busty, English-speaking, environmentalist super-model, who is sweet on John Smith, but who nevertheless decides to remain in America with her people, respecting their ways. In real life, Pocahontas converted to Christianity, married English tobacco magnate John Rolf (who doesn't appear in the Disney version), moved to England and died there of smallpox...
...encouraged students never to abandon their heritage...
Throughout the entire contest Harvard was forced to abandon its passing game in favor of a much less predictable air attack...
...problems. Kennedy loyalists argue that J.F.K. was no more than an interested bystander in the CIA campaign to murder Castro. But during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Hersh writes, Kennedy was in fact expecting that Castro would be quickly assassinated by Giancana's men. His fateful decision to abandon the whole thing was the abrupt consequence of his getting the news that the Cuban leader was still alive...