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...Whether the continuing probe into the Lockerbie bombing proceeds by public inquiry in Britain or by civil suit in the U.S.-or both-there will, of course, never be perfect justice. If al-Megrahi's appeal fails, he will be up for parole in Glasgow in 20 years. Family members will be on hand to argue against his release. "It wasn't just one murder, it was 270 murders," says Brian Flynn, whose brother was one of them. "Twenty years in prison isn't nearly enough." But certainly nothing is enough. "My son is still dead, and that...
...merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing ?zero immigration? policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress Europe...
...Browns bought their house on Glasgow Drive for $10,000. There, they raised a daughter and four sons and, through the years, celebrated Derwin's promotions, from street cop to narcotics detective to lieutenant to captain and eventually to assistant precinct commander. Derwin passed on his sense of racial pride and civic duty to his kids. His son Michael, 17, says his father "understood, just like Malcolm X, that you're going to lose a soldier in a battle. He took that in, and he wasn't afraid. Yet he still pressed forward...
Their home on Glasgow Drive was also where the Browns hunkered down whenever Derwin caused one of his fire storms. Not long after joining the police force, he helped lead efforts to add more black officers to the ranks. Then, two decades later, he helped the push to unionize the department. In the 1990s, his wife and family say he became increasingly critical of the sheriff, Pat Jarvis, a retired Atlanta Braves pitcher, who eventually pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in a deal that sent him to jail for 15 months...
...idea to justify the expense of my editors' sending me down here. I was going to use the concept that Rock in Rio was about saving the soul of rock 'n' roll, but I think I used that one a few months back when I went to Glasgow to interview Radiohead...