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...added that he would be “very surprised” if his client was not open to potential settlement offers...
...paper), you don't need the full inch-high file for every transfer, suggests St. Louis, Mo., attorney Lisa Pool Byrne of Blumenfeld, Kaplan & Sandweiss. For each sale, just pull out and save the one- or two-page closing statement or, for more recent transfers, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) form, or HUD-1. These legal-size sheets contain all the essential information, including the name of the title-insurance company...
...Masai. The 1904 treaty was theoretically meant to protect them. By the late 1800s, the tribe had been devastated by civil war and smallpox. With a new railroad making it easier to access remote lands, the British government created reservations that would be off-limits to white settlement. The treaty set aside as Masai lands 23,000 sq km in two regions: the Laikipia plateau and an area south of Nairobi. This left the fertile Rift Valley and what would become Nairobi open for the settlers. It was to be "enduring as long as the Masai as a race shall...
...color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded representation of a Kushite King is the largest copper-alloy statue yet found in Sudan. The Nubian settlement of Kerma was home to the earliest major urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa and produced, says curator Derek A. Welsby, "superb pottery, among the best ever made." Beakers dating from around 1750 B.C. have a distinctly contemporary look. A 19th century helmet represents the Otto- man era in Sudan...
...manufacturers who set prices, Haft ultimately prevailed in a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that triggered a retailing revolution. A family struggle for control of his empire in the early 1990s sundered his marriage and left some of his holdings bankrupt. Haft ceded control in 1997, taking a $50 million settlement...