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Cordingly also shows how the so-called “triangle trade”, the lifeblood of slavery and European colonial development, almost failed because of buccaneer attacks. As the colonies of the New World grew, so did the pirate threat, until its abrupt end at the hands of colonial authorities in the late 1720s...
Just weeks after reviving the public's interest in a case many had long forgotten, investigators now say the trail for JonBenet Ramsey's killer has gone as cold as ever. After years without a serious suspect, the abrupt dismissal of the burgeoning case against admitted pedophile John Mark Karr has made investigators wonder what's next. "There's a very high level of frustration. But we still very much hope it will be solved," said Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy, sounding defensive in a hastily convened press conference to explain how the case against Karr disintegrated. But Lacy...
...Salvador Dali had fashioned the moon, its surface might look something like the skate park in Sayreville, N.J. Undulating concrete bowls flow toward one another like bumping wombs. Ribboning "snake runs" slither around steel-pipe rails and abrupt concrete boxes. If it all seems like a dreamscape, that's because it is. This is the kind of place that skateboarders dream about. Steve Lenardo, 32, a physical-education teacher who also co-owns the local skate shop, comes down here a lot with his board. "It keeps my blood flowing," he says. "There's always something new to try, always...
...business affairs, Morgan was a man accustomed to handling things personally. One of his biggest objections to the way Roosevelt had sprung the Northern Securities suit was that the President had not quietly tipped him in advance. Large sums of borrowed money were at stake, and the abrupt attack by the Justice Department had rattled the markets. In Morgan style, he went personally to Washington to meet with Roosevelt and Attorney General Philander Knox...
...morning of Feb. 7, however, Summers was confident that he could endure the scheduled afternoon meeting of FAS, his first public conversation with professors since Kirby’s abrupt resignation, according a professor who spoke with him before the meeting. He spent the first half of the day at a semiannual retreat with the University’s deans—including Kirby—held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Irving Street, several blocks northeast of the Yard...