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Neighborhood spirit is most prominent during a four-day street carnival on Labor Day weekend filled with music and food sponsored by the Santa Lucia Chapel on Cushing Street...
Indeed, promoter Bob Arum, who manages welterweight champ Oscar De La Hoya, dropped Lucia Rijker, considered to be among the sport's best fighters, and now sets bouts for an NFL cheerleader, a topless dancer and boxing's infamous Playboy cover girl Mia St. John. Known more for her pink hot pants than her ring skills, St. John takes home about the same per fight as Ali and Frazier-Lyde...
...painter, friend and mentor to Cezanne and Gauguin, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. An item of literary history: Derek Walcott (1930- ), who would grow up to win the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia...
...started with bananas in Europe. After World War II, the continent's banana market divided into two kinds. Such countries as Britain, France and Spain limited imports and gave preferential treatment to bananas grown in their former colonies. Thus Britain encouraged banana output in Jamaica, Dominica, St. Lucia; France extended special treatment to bananas grown in the Ivory Coast and the Cameroons. At the other extreme, Germany offered a free market with no import restrictions or tariffs...
...that sophisticated military grade explosives had been found in medicine containers being carried by the Algerian national who was nabbed trying to cross into Washington State from Canada with a trunkload full of DIY bomb-making material. And Federal prosecutors announced they'd found a link between Ressam and Lucia Garofalo, the Canadian woman arrested last week trying to cross into Vermont with an Algerian companion. Information supplied by a "reliable government" said both were members of a Canada-based cell of an Algerian terrorist organization, the Armed Islamic Group...