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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 Paris in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War. But it was not a victory that was easily conceded and ...

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 balanced media didn’t wait for details to decide what the Bryant story was Really About. On the v...

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. According to him, it’s only separated by one thing.  The relationship between the NBA and the WNBA

includes disneyworld turned into the democrats magic kingdom. good morning from washington. it's monday, november 12, 2012. this is "the daily rundown. "i'm chuck todd. this is the federal holiday in honoring veterans day, by the way. to my first reads of the morning. it's a shiny metal object, the david petraeus investigation. it's 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 for a deficit reduction plan that includes tax increases on the wealthy, leveraging the political ...

>> no, i think it's just the general reference to things that weren't right. when i was writing the evidence, you know, i was trying to reflect on how i felt as -- i wasn't 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 weren't picking up the issues and perhaps the way they should have done. >> and before the liaison committee, when you appeared there last year, an overly close relationship permitted regulation issues ...