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...been known to temper his bluster with conciliation, particularly in the last few years. Libya has already agreed to pay $33 million in compensation to families of the 171 people killed when a French airliner was shot down over Niger in 1989; six Libyan officers, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law, received life sentences in absentia from a French court in 1999 for that attack. An investigative judge, Jean-Louis Brugui?re, was given the go-ahead late last year to pursue Gaddafi for "complicity in voluntary homicide," complicating France's advocacy for an end to sanctions against Libya. French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lockerbie Verdict: Case Closed? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...least while the fight was on, was he willing to look toward the future. At one point, when Eskew and Gore's brother-in-law Frank Hunger started musing about the Vice President's 2004 prospects, Eskew recalls, Gore cut them off: "Until we get to a midterm election, none of this stuff is set, so to speculate about it is really not something I want to spend time on." But in his concession speech, Gore clearly had an eye ahead, vowing to "never stop" the fight he began in his campaign. Of course, it may be that his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last His Own Man | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

When Lopes first arrived in Cambridge in 1970, MAPS was only a year old, she only knew her brother-in-law, she had four children and did not speak English...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portuguese Create Stable But Isolated World | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

When Lopes first arrived, however, she says there was little of today's sense of Portuguese solidarity. She only chose Cambridge so that she could be close to her brother-in-law, who had immigrated from Portugal some years before...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portuguese Create Stable But Isolated World | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...Boston resident reported that when he met his brother-in-law at Au Bon Pain, the brother-in-law demanded money. When the victim refused to hand over any money, his brother-in-law attacked him with a cell phone. A store employee broke up the fight, and the unconscious victim was transported to Mt. Auburn Hospital...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Weekly Police Log | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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