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Compassion, says the Oxford English Dictionary, means "suffering together." There has been plenty of that among politicians in London and Washington since Scotland's Justice Minister freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" Aug. 20, citing doctors' reports that he was dying of prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi, the sole person jailed for the deaths of 270 people in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, had served just eight years of a 27-year sentence. After all their grieving, the victims' loved ones had to watch al-Megrahi land in Tripoli, Libya...
...Britain asked for something else as well? The finger-pointing began even before al-Megrahi was released. Scotland may have had jurisdiction over the case, but British opposition politicians blamed Gordon Brown's government for its handling of the case. Victims' families and lawyers say they suspect that officials, eager to help British companies win multibillion-dollar energy and defense contracts, cut a backroom deal in exchange for al-Megrahi's freedom...
...selection of Bob Jones also strikes us as lackadaisical. Yes, ha ha, it's a highly religious school that used to lack accreditation. But even Al Franken, who visited with the express purpose of making fun of the school, had to admit it wasn't that bad. Halfhearted choice...
...selection of Bob Jones also strikes us as lackadaisical. Yes, ha ha, it's a highly religious school that used to lack accreditation. But even Al Franken, who visited with the express purpose of making fun of the school, had to admit it wasn't that bad. Halfhearted choice...
...Indeed, as Hosni has rushed to explain or reject his inflammatory comments abroad, Egyptian officials and cultural figures have sounded alarmed at him going soft. "I am angry with him," Egyptian poet Abderahman al-Abnudi recently wrote in the pro-government magazine Al-Mussawer. "The fact that he apologizes in this manner fills me with deep sadness." (See a video of anger and labor strikes in Egypt's Nile Delta...