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...Uncle Sam was, believe it or not, a real person. During the war of 1812, American troops near the Canadian border received barrels of pork and beef from a Troy, New York meatpacker named Samuel Wilson. Wilson stamped "U.S." on the barrels - because they were going to the U.S. military - and the soldiers joked about gifts sent from "Uncle...
...ndez de Kirchner on Monday, when a Miami court convicted a Venezuelan secret agent of attempting to cover up an alleged illegal donation to her 2007 election campaign by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. Justice Minister Anibal Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely to help soften the latest blow to a government reeling from a drastic fall in public...
...Wilson noted that the city’s residential tax rate of $7.56 per $1,000 of value is the lowest in the Boston area...
...when freshman forward Charissa Stadnyk scored a power-play goal to cut Harvard’s lead to 2-1.Bassett added her second score, a powerful shot from the left side of the net, with the Crimson playing shorthanded nine minutes later. At 16:05 Basset and senior forward Sarah Wilson combined following a faceoff to set up another Ryabkina goal.Early in the third period, Harvard scored two power-play goals, taking a 6-1 lead. Wilson notched her first of the game at 7:13 and Ryabkina completed her hat trick at 8:54.The Tigers attempted a late rally, scoring...
...events there is a carefully cultivated atmosphere of history-in-the making, inspiring tens of thousands of people to line up for hours, many taking the day off work or pulling their children out of school for the event. In pouring rain and baking tarmacs they groove to Jackie Wilson's "Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher" and "I'll Take You There," by Mavis Staples in between speeches by local politicians...