Word: basset
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...southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a horrific fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder of 270 people and sentence him to life imprisonment in a Scottish jail. His co-defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found not guilty...
...exploded. The next day, they quietly took down their trees and tinsel and began mourning the 259 passengers and 11 neighbors who were killed. Time has gradually healed those memories, and two years ago Lockerbie restored its Christmas decorations. But it was last week, with the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, that the town seemed finally at peace. "There is a sense of relief that the trial is over and the verdict given," says local councilor Marjory McQueen. "I think Lockerbie has drawn a line under what happened...
...NETHERLANDS Lockerbie Appeal Five Scottish judges began hearing an appeal by the man convicted of planting the bomb that killed 259 people aboard a Pan Am flight in 1988. Lawyers for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi told the special court at Camp Zeist that new evidence would "tear holes" in the ruling, which jailed al-Megrahi for 20 years. They said statements from a security guard at London's Heathrow Airport showed that the bomb could have originated there, and that the trial judges had erred in relying on the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified the accused...
...note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...
...desk. Eating a doughnut. Blink. "SO?" she I.M.'d me. O.K., there was something underwhelming about the Webcam experience. Frankly, it was more interesting to peek into the windows of the hundreds of other people who were "live" on SpotLife. I especially liked the Webcast of the two basset hounds. Now that's entertainment...