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...remember, of course, the Caroline incident? (Don't worry; neither did I.) In 1837 Canadian forces attacked a U.S. ship of that name, killed one of its passengers, set it on fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving...
...remember, of course, the Caroline incident? (Don't worry; neither did I.) In 1837 Canadian forces attacked a U.S. ship of that name, killed one of its passengers, set it on fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving...
...Crimson was somewhat inconsistent this year. Harvard posted wins over top teams, including national No. 2 Brown and No. 3 Niagara. On the flip side, they lost games they should have won against Princeton and Cornell and tied a first-year Division I program in Colgate...
...America. Some have already begun. Last month shareholders approved a deal to sell LG&E Energy Corp., based in Louisville, Ky., to the German giant E.ON. Its German competitor, RWE, bought one of the largest U.S. water utilities in January, the same month that a British firm picked up Niagara Mohawk of Syracuse, N.Y. Flush with cash and out of room to grow on their own turf, the Europeans see an opportunity in the U.S. to pick up individual plants or whole companies at fire-sale prices...
...financial capacity of National Grid Transco [the merged company] to take advantage of opportunities in the liberalizing energy markets abroad, in particular extending National Grid's successful U.S. strategy." Half the company's profits already come from the U.S., thanks to three utilities it owns in the Northeast, including Niagara Mohawk, which National Grid bought in January...