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Stamping colonial ownership: Britain shapes Tobago in her likeness DR RITA PEMBERTON The most extensive rituals of possession that occurred on the island of Tobago were those imposed by the British. The island’s tenure as a British colony lasted from 1763-1781 and 1793-1962, with a French interruption in 1801/1802. The rivalry between Britain and France for possession of Tobago, which intensified from the 1740s, was temporarily halted when the island was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Pari...

Tweet An addendum to Ed’s post earlier about the Ma’Khia Bryant case, in which cops rolled up on a 16-year-old girl with a knife in her hand seemingly fully intent on stabbing the person she was fighting with. If they hadn’t fired and Bryant had killed the other girl right in front of them, how would that girl’s family have reacted to the bodycam footage after it was released? Why didn’t you stop her? they would have asked. What would the cops have said? Some members of our fair and...

January 12, 2021 Jaylen Brown knows the game of basketball. As one of the league’s most promising young stars with the Boston Celtics, he’s had quite an opportunity to learn the game throughout his NBA career. He’s emerged as a star on one of the Eastern Conference’s most talent-laden teams. As a student of the game, Brown recently took an opportunity to discuss women’s basketball. In Brown’s estimation, there isn’t much difference between the men’s and women’s games. Accordin...

includes disneyworld turned into the democrats magic kingdom. good morning from washington. its monday, november 12, 2012. this is "the daily rundown. "im chuck todd. this is the federal holiday in honoring veterans day, by the way. to my first reads of the morning. its a shiny metal object, the david petraeus investigation. its overshadowing what is the biggest story still in washington for the next two months. the president this week will kick off an effort to rally public support fo...

>> no, i think its just the general reference to things that werent right. when i was writing the evidence, you know, i was trying to reflect on how i felt as -- i wasnt leading the opposition then, but just generally. and i looked back at some of the evidence and thought, you know, well, parliament was doing its job and select committee was doing its job, but the party leaderships werent picking up the issues and perhaps the way they should have done. >> and before the liaison committ...

experiences that are relevant to serving on the porch. my mother reminded me, coming full circle, that my father had been the solicitor of the maritime commission in the kennedy and johnson administrations. when nixon took office, we moved as far away physically and spiritually as we could, to berkeley in 1969. [laughter] it was touching to receive the nomination and be able to go full circle with something my father had always cared so passionately about and instilled in me. my first ...

>> we cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartel. >> arizonas crackdown on illegal immigrants forced washington to act on illegal reform. that with the "roundtable" h-george will, paul krugman, former fox business news vice president alexis glick and cynthia tucker from the atlanta journal constitution. and as always, the "sunday funnies." p president obama had to cancel his trip to poleland. this morning he said he hopes the volcano stops smoking soon and the vo...

threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness. >> we cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartel. >> arizonas crackdown on illegal immigrants forced washington to act on illegal reform. that and the rest of the weeks politics on the "roundtable" with george will, paul krugman. former fox business news vice president alexis glick and cynthia tucker from the atlanta journal constitution. and as always, the "sunday funnies." president obama had to cancel his trip...

an $80 billion snow day? welcome, everyone, im stuart varney for neil cavuto. let it snow, two feet of white stuff shutting down washington. the jobs bill, the exact cost is not known but expected to be in the range of $80 billion. with more snow on the way, jd hayward says keep is coming. the former arizona congressman joins me, expected to launch formally his gop bid for john mccains senate seat next week. welcome to the program. youre not unhappy with snow shuts down washington. why...

least within the past year, perhaps ever. it started out, as you said, with a couple of suicide bombers, one a car bomber, another wearing a suicide bomb vest. and then that progressed as this sophisticated attack turned into a fierce four-hour gun battle between a handful of militants who took positions on the upper floors of the high-rise market building against the afghan forces on the ground below. and in the end, the spectacular nature of these attacks and one suicide bomb that oc...