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When conquistadors subjugated Peru in 1534, the Inca civilization was only their first victim. Spain too would eventually pay a heavy price. The Spaniards discovered a veritable mountain of silver at Potosí, but it was only thanks to the potato - domesticated in Peru's uplands some 8,000 years earlier - that Spanish slave drivers could feed the army of conscripted miners they deployed to dig up the silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe...
...turn instead to another video victim, the archconservative capo di tutti capi at the National Review. A polyglot, intellectual and harpsichordist, Mr. Buckley has never been the media’s darling, or their plaything; indeed, he has become late in life the Jeremiah of authentic American conservatism...
...Which is how The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an adaptation of stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography, beat out the screen version of Ian McEwan's Atonement for best adapted screenplay. And how newcomer Marion Cotillard - who played Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose - nabbed the best actress award that was all but already on Julie Christie's mantelpiece. The upset has British awards-watchers seething and might have left Christie a little peeved, too: on Monday morning she was quoted in the free daily Metro calling the BAFTAs "a night for the media to fill gaps...
...Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande, Fla. in late December after police received a complaint from a man claiming that McGee had sexually abused his teenage son in the steam room of the $600-a-night Gulf Coast resort. McGee entered the steam room, masturbated in front of the victim, and performed oral sex on the victim while sodomizing him, according to court documents. “Mr. McGee was placed on administrative leave effective Jan. 7, pending the outcome of the matter,” said Kofi Jones, the spokesman for McGee’s supervisor, Secretary of Housing...
...with every Kyle Koncz three-pointer in the first half (all five of them—he finished with six and 24 points), and every Lincoln Gunn long ball in the second half (four, en route to 17 points), the Tigers were set to make Harvard their second victim of the young season...