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Arriving at the Caribbean island of Nevis, ship's carpenters built a gallows to hang Smith for insubordination. He was spared by the group's commander, Captain Christopher Newport, a career privateer who had lost an arm pirating booty on the Spanish Main and reckoned the colonists would need every fighting man they had once they got to Virginia. Sure enough, two weeks after they settled at Jamestown, 200 Indians attacked. Cannon fire dispersed the war party, but the skirmish served notice that the settlers were not welcome on the rich riverside tracts Native Americans first roamed some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain John Smith | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daniel J. Furman | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...minutes Time it took Englishman Carl Dockings to propose to an American woman he met on the Internet, after flying 4,000 miles from Newport, Wales, to Chicago to see her for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 30, 2007 | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...real life than the characters he's provided. He can be really sweet and adorkable, but there's some anger there. He was able to give the character some dignity. Seth Cohen was a guy who had no friends, but it was almost as much his choice as the Newport Beach water-polo players'." In other words, he's the first nerd to tell the cool kids that giving noogies is lame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Adorkable | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...melted and the temperatures rose this weekend, the No. 4 Harvard co-ed sailing team traveled to Newport, R.I. and took fourth at the Salve Regina Wood Trophy race. The No. 9 women’s team opened its season with mixed results at the Navy Women’s Regatta in Annapolis, M.D., taking sixth place despite limited outside training during the winter months. WOOD TROPHY After winning the Sharpe Trophy Team race last weekend, the Crimson traveled to Regina Salve University without co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs, who spent the weekend at home training with professional sailors. Instead...

Author: By Kelley D. Mckinney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Struggles in Spring Regatta | 3/12/2007 | See Source »

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