Word: dempster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late in the 1890s, a young shipping executive named Edmund Dene Morel stands on the shipping docks of Antwerp, Belgium. Amidst the hustle and bustle of ships destined for the Congo, he meticulously records trade statistics for his employer, the shipping firm Elder Dempster. As Morel watches the sailors unload case after case of rubber and ivory from the incoming ships, he suddenly notices that the numbers don't match up. In these brief moments, standing on the dock in Antwerp, Morel finds himself amidst one of the largest slave-operations of this century...
Under present law Charles and Diana would have to remain separated for another year before they could divorce -- but the government could probably massage the laws if it chose. Gossip meister Nigel Dempster reported last month that Prince Charles had promised to marry his paramour, Camilla Parker- Bowles -- which would depend not only on the Prince's being free but also on Camilla's divorcing her Catholic husband. At the same time, Dempster also suggested that Diana was still hoping for a reconciliation with the man who, in one secretly recorded exchange, expressed his wish to be reincarnated...