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...naval protection racket they had been running in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean since the late 16th century. They seized foreign ships and enslaved the crews. If you paid them tribute in advance, they would leave you alone. Otherwise, you would have to ransom captives on an ad hoc basis. Their most famous prisoner was Miguel de Cervantes, who fictionalized his ordeal in Don Quixote. Roman Catholic religious orders (Trinitarians, Order of Mercy) devoted themselves to the business of ransoming Christian captives...
...million Average cost to air a 30-sec. ad during the Super Bowl...
...Dreamgirls”; Mark Wahlberg, “The Departed”Murphy has a lock on the Oscar. But even though his performance as Jimmy Early garnered more critical acclaim than he’s gotten in his full twenty-five year career, can anyone picture an ad for “Norbit” featuring the words “starring Oscar Winner” and take it seriously? Would anyone have more respect for the next installment in “The Nutty Professor” franchise? Some weighty competition will come from Wahlberg, whose fast-talking...
...leader Tom Daschle. Clinton's big blog hire for this campaign, the well-known Peter Daou, has caused a kerfuffle of his own by buying advertisements on blogs around the country, including conservative sites, drawing criticism from liberal pundits and from bloggers whose sites were left out of the ad...
...also unfair to Sherley.Brown and Reif refused to comment.Sherley also said in his letter that Reif asked him to provide layoff notices to the members of his lab in November, before the committee had even finished its investigation. MIT claimed that fair procedure was followed.“The ad hoc committee [formed after Sherley’s first complaint] concluded that the process that led to the decision not to advance Professor Sherley’s case for tenure was fair and did not differ in any significant way from the standard process used in tenure reviews...