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...British colony, Emily anticipated getting rich off sales of maize and throwing fêtes with fellow settlers, only to learn that they were "solidly working-class Scots" with whom she had little in common. Haunted by flashbacks of soldiers dying without morphine, she had a nervous breakdown: "She called her children to her and said, 'Poor Mummy, poor, poor Mummy.' I was aged six and I hated her for it. This woman whimpering in her bed saying, Pity me, pity...
...firm, still has the leaders of both countries talking. But their tone has changed. When current U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought up TNK-BP with Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's successor, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit on July 7, the uneasy discussion was of a breakdown in relations between the British and Russian partners. Meanwhile, Dudley, the company's BP-appointed boss, is battling to keep his job. In Moscow that same day, AAR, the Russian consortium that controls 50% of TNK-BP, called for his dismissal, claiming that the business was floundering...
...died of old age. The enemy didn't kill him." But he admits that where he and his comrades would once have heard immediately of news like Marulanda's demise through FARC communications channels, this time they had to rely on news radio. It's the kind of structural breakdown that allowed the army to plant a mole inside the FARC and dupe its leaders into delivering Betancourt and the other hostages to the army. Even more damaging than the loss of Marulanda and other leaders is the number of guerrillas giving up the struggle. The desertions come after...
...first, the jury deliberations seemed indecisive. After jurors began on Thursday afternoon, they cast votes about once an hour. First, they reached a vote of nine not guilty, three guilty. Then, it shifted to ten not guilty, two guilty. At one point, the breakdown shifted to seven not guilty, five guilty. This morning, jurors sent several notes: They needed an easel with a flip-board to visualize their arguments. They wanted a second VCR to review evidence more closely. "I've seen the video too many times - the first time was too many," said the lone female juror who agreed...
...hand over 3 million Sudeten Germans, even though doing so was more likely to embolden Hitler than placate him. But while Munich was a sellout that showed Hitler how reluctant Britain was to return to war, it was not the cause of World War II any more than the breakdown in talks with Iran could be said to be the cause of Tehran's intensification of its uranium enrichment. The same people who rightly charge Chamberlain with underestimating Hitler seem to believe (naively) that a British threat of war would have rid the dictator of his desire to bring German...