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Indiana University archaeologists identified remnants of the ship that British privateer turned pirate William Kidd abandoned in the Caribbean in 1699 when he went to New York City to clear his name. The Quedagh Merchant had long eluded treasure hunters...
...merchants that really benefit from this? This tends to capture smaller transactions. It tends to capture places where there are queues--fast-service restaurants, parking lots, transit, buses, subways--where time is really important. So you go back three years ago, you could not pay with a card in McDonald's. The last thing they want to do is add 10 seconds to the time it takes to get you, after you get your food, away from the cash register. We found out, hey, the signature and the PIN--that adds a lot of time. So we said, Fine...
...MacEwan’s prose, all lend themselves well to Wright’s eye for lush cinematography and emotional bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels to the big screen. While the worse of these ended up being tedious opulent excess, the best, like 1992’s “Howard’s End” or 1985’s “A Room with...
...milder epithets he launched at his foes in parliamentary debate) and greatly misunderstood for his tastes: given his passions for antique French clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor of Sydney.) Despite Keating's defeat in the 1996 elections, Turnbull and his fellow republicans were able to bring the republic issue to a nationwide vote...
That's evident in the first-class boutique hotels recently built in the city's large stock of grand old buildings. The most sumptuous is the Hotel Le St-James (514-841-3111), which was fashioned out of a 130-year-old merchant-bank building in the Old Montreal district. Travelers looking for suites with antique furniture and plasma-screen-TV-equipped, marble-encased bathrooms can alight here for $300 to $3,750 a night. A bit pricey, non? "Our guests don't ask the price, they ask for the square footage," sniffs the hotel's directeur-general Guy Luzy...