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Simmons is also raising her three grandchildren, who attend Cambridge public schools, making the wedding an occasion that “completed the family,” said Rosaleah Brown, deputy assistant to the mayor...
...Scottish document in particular could cause grief for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who insists that Britain had nothing to do with al-Megrahi's release. By contrast, the document, the minutes of a March 2009 meeting between Libyan and Scottish officials, says a Libyan minister recounted being told by British Foreign Minister Bill Rammell "that neither the prime minister [Brown] nor the foreign secretary [David Miliband] would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison, but the decision on transfer lies in the hands of the Scottish ministers." If the critically ill al-Megrahi died in jail, the Libyan minister...
...Despite suspicions among some politicians and some of the victims' families of a secret deal between Libya and Britain, Prime Minister Brown and key Cabinet members have insisted that al-Megrahi's release was decided solely by Scotland's Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill, who freed him on compassionate grounds, saying he was dying of prostate cancer and had only three months left to live. (Read "Was Oil Part of a Deal for the Lockerbie Bomber...
...while Britons love to complain about the NHS, they remain fiercely protective of its existence. A "We Love the NHS" Twitter campaign has received thousands of messages of support, including one from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose eyesight was saved by doctors after a rugby accident as a young man. Conservative opposition leader David Cameron, whose disabled son died earlier this year, also confirmed his commitment to the service...
Every year, the market-research firm Millward Brown conducts a survey to determine the economic worth of the world's brands - in other words, to put a dollar value on the many corporate logos that dominate our lives. Lately the firm's results have been stuck on repeat: Google has claimed the top spot for the past three years. The most recent report values Google's brand - those six happy letters that herald so many of our jaunts down the Web's rabbit hole - at more than $100 billion...