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...estimated catch to his managers in Barbate, so that they can negotiate with Japanese buyers waiting in the harbor. The fishermen whoop in delight as cranes hoist their catch onto the boats. "This is our best day this year," says one, adding: "You brought us luck." Some version of that scene has been going on for thousands of years in and around the Mediterranean Sea. Fishermen on Spain's 4,000-km Mediterranean coast have hunted tuna since ancient times; Roman imperial soldiers based near Barbate packed dried tuna loin and tuna eggs in their kits as a portable source...
...unconventional, and I didn't want that part to die." So Shyamalan went to Warner Bros., which is releasing Lady and which, he says, "has already offered to make the next movie, sight unseen." Disney, in a statement, said it wishes the director "the best of luck with Lady and all future endeavors...
...turned the convoy around. But a company that had had no luck at all so far did not have any now. As the big machines made their slow U-turn, one of the trucks ran out of gas. The convoy stopped, and Jessi, Lori and others piled out of the humvees and trucks and formed a guard around the truck as another soldier poured gas into...
...Cairo by a Russian head of state since Nikita Khrushchev's visit in 1964, just as President Hosni Mubarak was scrapping his annual trip to the White House. Russia is even starting an Arabic-language TV channel in the Middle East to spread its influence. With a little luck, the potential exists for Moscow to play a pivotal role in certain Middle Eastern issues, according to Gamal Abdul-Gawad Soltan of Cairo's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. Russia, says Soltan, can pursue "a policy of blocking a consensus among major powers, which Middle East leaders...
...Davis's luck, and with it his dreams, ran out: Union soldiers in Irwinville, Georgia finally caught up with and arrested him. Three weeks later, General Smith's forces in Texas surrendered; and on June 23, the Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie, aware of Smith's surrender, accepted the inevitable. He galloped into the tiny Indian Territory hamlet of Fort Towson-in today's Oklahoma-and surrendered his battalion of Cherokee, Seminole and Osage Indians to Union forces. The Confederacy had officially become a lost cause...