CHAPTER I
The Marchioness of Amesbury was giving a garden party
in the spacious but somewhat urban grounds of her
mansion in Kensington. Perhaps because it was
the first affair of its sort of th...
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While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips ...
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The two formerly famously feuding rappers settled their beef in October 2005 and now it looks like Nas will join the label that former nemesis Jay presides over. As The New York Times reports, the ...
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Two former executives pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying to cover up fraud in a $49 million contract between Cook County and a U.S. subsidiary of the German industrial giant Siemens AG.Daniel P. Desmo...
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London (dpa) - Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell Thursday
reported record annual profits of nearly 14 billion pounds in 2007,
prompting fresh calls from trade unions...
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Police in northern China have detained three men for the deaths of two women whose corpses were to be sold as "ghost brides" to accompany dead men in the afterlife, state media said.Authorities ind...
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Police in northern China have detained three men for the deaths of two women whose corpses were to be sold as "ghost brides" to accompany dead men in the afterlife, state media said.Authorities ind...
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Hitachi Zosen Corp. said Monday its group net balance swung back
to the black in fiscal 2006 partly because the heavy machinery maker,
unlike in the pervious year, was freed from massive extr...
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A judge has struck down Delaware's two-year ban on harvesting horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, saying the crustaceans' population is healthy enough to allow a limited harvest.The state failed to pr...
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Major Japanese shipbuilders are moving to increase their
production capacity amid strong demand supported by fast-growing
markets in China and other countries, the companies said.
Major Ja...
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Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Nia Vardalos have sued one of the producers of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," alleging they are still owed profits from the 2002 sleeper hit.The lawsuit, filed in Los Angele...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects strong demand and cost cuts to boost second-half profit in its chip business, it said Friday.The profit margin for its NAND flash memory chips _ used i...
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The Profiteers
E(dward) Phillips Oppenheim
Nas Joins Def Jam's Roster
