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...Cleveland Cavaliers. How does the move affect Cleveland's chances of winning the championship? I think they obviously improved. People have different things to say about Shaq, but he is undoubtedly the most dominant force in the NBA. When we're playing, we notice that Shaq is on the court. Regardless of how effective he's been, he affects you mentally. He changes your thought process about how you're going to go in there and do different things...
...MacAskill said that compassion was "a defining characteristic of Scottish people" and that "the perpetuation of an atrocity cannot and should not be a basis for losing sight of who we are ... Mr. Al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power. It's one that no court ... could revoke or overrule. It is terminal, final and irrevocable. He is going...
...professor emeritus of Scots Law at Edinburgh University and one of the legal architects of the Camp Zeist trial, tells TIME that he is relieved by Al-Megrahi's release. "Al-Megrahi should never have been convicted in the first place," he says. "It's totally inexplicable that a court could have felt the evidence against him justified a guilty verdict...
...Megrahi was convicted in a specially convened Scottish court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands in 2001. Prosecutors argued that he placed a bomb, hidden in boom box inside a suitcase, on a flight from Malta to Frankfurt, Germany. From there, the bomb was transferred onto the Pan Am plane that went first to London's Heathrow Airport and then took off for New York City. The bomb exploded as the plane flew over Scotland, causing it to crash on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish border. Another man - Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima - was also tried...
...Scottish court rules that al-Megrahi is entitled to a second appeal, saying he "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice." Among the court's troubling findings: prosecutors failed to tell the defense that Gauci, the Maltese shopkeeper, had seen a picture of Megrahi in a magazine before picking him out of the line...