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...unlikely to have many unfulfilled needs in the future. The couple signed no prenuptial agreement. McCartney's fortune, based on his part-ownership of Apple Corp., which owns the Beatles brand, as well as song royalties and his active touring career, is estimated at over $1.5 billion, and rising. "Over the years, the British courts have come closer to an equal division of assets" between divorcing couples, says Anthony Burton, a partner at solicitors Simons Muirhead & Burton in London. In this case, despite the relatively short (four-year) marriage and the fact that McCartney had accumulated most of his wealth...
...Gaddafi had taken heart from the willingness of the U.S. and Britain to reach a compromise agreement over Lockerbie. As those negotiations neared their conclusion with a partial lifting of sanctions, Seif al Islam secretly met with three MI6 officers in a hotel room in London?s posh Mayfair district late one Sunday afternoon in March 2003. (An aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mohammed Rashid, arranged the rendezvous...
...Willie McSporran, who led the buyout. "One farmer told me: 'I went whistling and smiling to pay my rent, knowing that it wasn't going into the pocket of a laird.'" Last year Assynt's residents followed suit. The place had been stagnating, partly because the Vesteys had an agreement with Britain's Inland Revenue to keep the land in its natural state in exchange for inheritance-tax relief. Locals claimed that when they wanted land to start businesses or build houses, the Vesteys often declined their requests. "I have refused one or two cases for houses that seem...
...really counts, the mood music is scratchy. "Blair should've gone out on a high and given Brown a chance to make his mark, whereas now we're left with this crappy infighting," says Neil Pennill, an information-technology worker in London, whose colleagues, dining with him, nod in agreement. As with George W. Bush, his friend across the Atlantic, Iraq is the mother of all Blair's troubles. Voters think he stretched the case for war beyond what the evidence could bear - and the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction, plus the continuing mess in the country...
...slip it into a moving bill which directs GSA to transfer the property to the school," Abramoff wrote on July 21, 2002 to Volz. "Any chance of slipping into the election reform bill?" Volz replied, "The election reform negotiators have been meeting all weekend and may be close to agreement. This means we would have to move asap." "You are wonderful," Abramoff responded...