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...already. First, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, the official judicial scrutinizer that issued yesterday's report, did not even exist when the Camp Zeist trial was planned. Second, judges are now nominated by an independent board. The judges at Megrahi's trial would have been nominated by the Lord Advocate, who is also the chief adviser to Scotland's public prosecution - a system that may have made it hard in the past for judges to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. Both moves, says Black, were brought in largely to help Scotland comply with the European Convention...
...might think, how bad can that be? To which one responds, after two lugubrious hours in their company, really awful. Rarely have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lockjawed mouse. The movie begins at the deathbed of Redgrave's Ann Lord, whose thoughts, in her final moments, have turned to a young doctor named Harris (Patrick Wilson), whom she met when she was maid of honor at her best friend's wedding in Newport, R.I. a half century earlier. The bride (Gummer) loved Harris too, but it is Ann (played as a young...
Working under him at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN will be the newly ennobled Lord Malloch Brown, better known on the world stage as former U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown. Well-connected in Washington, Malloch Brown also ruffled some American feathers. Last year John Bolton, then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said Malloch Brown was the author of "of the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen." That comment followed a speech by Malloch Brown in which he criticized the U.S. government for permitting...
...fraud, racketeering and other charges, Black, through his Hollinger empire, controlled one of Canada's two national newspapers, a top newsmagazine and more than 60% of the country's community newspapers. He gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in the British House of Lords, becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour, but he was already the equivalent of Canadian royalty. More outspoken, more opinionated and certainly far richer than the typical Canuck, he seemed to enjoying being in the newspapers almost as much as he did publishing them...
...During the trial, Maclean's coverage has been dominated by vigorous denunciations of the prosecution by columnist Mark Steyn, a personal friend of the Blacks. Instead of shying away from the appearance of conflict, Steyn positively revels in it. "Yesterday I was chit-chatting with Lord Black on the other side of the Chicago River far from the courthouse," began his Maclean's blog on June 8, reminding readers that his access to Black goes beyond the courthouse steps. In an e-mail interview with TIME, Whyte pointed out that Maclean's has published "stories and commentaries in addition...