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...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4˘ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...
...interview, Clinton said the haphazard account of the presidential years was intentional: "It's much more like a diary of what it's like to be President." There are an awful lot of passages like "In mid-month, Hillary and I flew to St. Louis, where I signed the Mississippi River flood relief legislation ... Then we flew on to Denver, where we welcomed Pope John Paul II to the United States." Of course, those sorts of passages are a chronic disease in presidential memoirs...
...Wiley, Loeb professor of biochemistry and biophysics, is declared missing after police find his abandoned rental car on an Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River near Memphis. Wiley was last seen on Nov. 15 at a dinner at the Peabody Hotel, where he was attending the annual meeting of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientific advisory board...
Five weeks after he vanished, police find Professor Wiley’s body floating in the Mississippi River, 320 miles downstream from the Memphis bridge on which his abandoned car was found. His death is later ruled accidental and not a suicide, as was originally suggested by authorities...
...Mississippi Masala, an interracial love story set in the American South and Uganda and that starred Denzel Washington, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival, including Best Screenplay and the Audience Choice Award. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, which she directed and co-wrote, is a sexually explicit and opulent film, which weaves the tale of two women in 16th century India who look to the ancient text of the Kama Sutra to guide them in their exploration of love...