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Three years later on Dec. 30, 1998, Cavallaro and Marques exchanged vows in Rio de Janeiro. Renting an apartment overlooking the beach, the newlyweds held both a wedding party and a New Year celebration, a holiday complete with music and fireworks rivaled in Rio only by Carnival, Brazil’s most famous festival...
...some effect. There have been 17 strikes by unmanned aircraft in Pakistani territory thus far this year, according to the Long War Journal, a nonprofit online publication that tracks such attacks. The spike was triggered in part by a Dec. 30 suicide attack that killed seven CIA officials at an Afghan outpost. The Haqqani network and Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud apparently aided the suicide bomber; some reports say Mehsud was wounded, possibly killed, in a Jan. 14 strike. Meanwhile, the remote-control pilots operating Predators and Reapers continue to peer at their video screens, hoping to catch sight...
...Dec. 7, 2009, the Steve Irwin, a ship belonging to the radical anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society departed from the port of Fremantle, in Western Australia, bound for Antarctica. It was farewelled by members of the celebrated animal conservationist's family, who supported the Sea Shepherd's Mission to obstruct the Japanese whalers in Antarctic Waters...
Harvard tried to sell about $1.5 billion in private equity holdings in Dec. 2008, but rejected most bids after garnering lower-than-expected offers, Bloomberg reported last year...
Online brokers were soon seeing their business pick up. "There has definitely been a surge in the past 12 to 18 months," says Fred Tomczyk, chief executive of TD Ameritrade. "We've had very good growth trends." In TD Ameritrade's fiscal first quarter that ended on Dec. 31, 2009, net new assets rose to $8.7 billion from $7.8 billion a year earlier, according to Kim Hillyer, the company's senior manager of communications...