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...On the Panamanian side, they’re facing a different problem, which is they’d like to seal the border, but it’s a very difficult border to police. It’s remote. It’s dangerous. There’s no roads....
...With that in prospect, does Luis wish he’d never come? He shrugs, gesturing at the dentures he wears to replace the teeth that he says were knocked out by Venezuelan police: “I can’t go back.”...
...In the meantime, I’d be fascinated by your response....
...Another corporate raider, Asher Edelman, inspired the film’s art theme, which includes Bud’s love interest and Gekko’s ex, interior decorator Darien (Daryl Hannah)....
...Miller’s approach works perfectly for a general reader like myself, using nine of Keats’s best-loved poems to guide us from the dazzled explorer standing “Silent, upon a peak in Darien” (in his early “On...
...At 20, I’d never been a character in a book, and Sebastian could not have been more generous....
...He commanded a submarine chaser — equipped, at his insistence, with a complete set of Modern Library editions of literary classics — and was present at the Allied D-Day landings....
...In 1971-72, when explorer Major John Blashford-Snell led the 18,000-mile, British trans-Americas expedition, which included the first vehicle crossing of the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia, his team...
...Who Engel & Völkers, tel: +39 0942 62 00 78 65 St Nicholas Road, Darien, Connecticut, US $5.5m Where On a 2.4-acre plot in Darien, 36 miles north-west of Manhattan....
...Who Côte d’Azur Sotheby’s International Realty, sothebys.com, tel: +33 4 92 92 12 88 Great Island, Darien, Connecticut, US, $175m Where On Long Island Sound near the town of Darien, about one hour’s drive...
...Moreover, the “Solid D” states weren’t consistently net contributors to the rest of the country until 1999....
...To me she said: “You’d be as brown-lookin’ as my husband if you stayed on in St Elizabeth.” “My husband”, she went on, “is really a black Scotsman....
...“It’s about Lord Lovat on the beach on D-Day, the bagpipes playing as his brigade landed ashore....
...53 Contentment Island Road, Darien, Connecticut, US, $19.95m Where At the tip of Contentment Island, on the Connecticut Gold Coast, about a 90-minute drive to downtown New York, and 50 miles north of JFK...
...Darien Kindlund, a FireEye researcher, said the hack had the hallmarks of a group of Chinese cyber criminals who have previously targeted US government entities, Japanese companies, defence contractors,...
...overnight passage was an undeniably fast start, and Nikki Alford, Bessie Ellen’s owner and skipper, admitted the “acceleration zone” between Tenerife and La Gomera had been a bit rougher and tougher than she’d...
...The road, which would cross the Darien Gap – an infamous guerrilla and narcotrafficker riddled stretch of jungle – remains controversial, especially in Panama, which fears an influx of illegal immigrants...
...In many of them I built a garden, just to keep myself sane; I’d plant a vegetable patch or grow some corn. They often threatened us, giving us the odd kick or punch....
...The Bank of Scotland was founded in 1695 to fund Scottish commerce – just before the Darien scheme (Scotland’s effort to set up a trading empire in what is now Panama), which ended in failure with many losing...
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