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...memorabilia to coincide with the Oct. 28 opening of This Is It, a film of Jackson preparing for the comeback tour aborted by his death. The court overruled his mother Katherine, who was apparently unhappy about aspects of the plan. Even as the decision was made, one other member of the Jackson clan urged caution about any rush to cash in. Taj Jackson, 36, the late entertainer's nephew (the son of his brother Tito), says that the projects would benefit from more "family input" to ensure his uncle's legacy is protected. He adds: "I don't want this...
...live with courage." In 2001, Pant and a few friends organized the Blue Diamond Society - named after the Diamond Sutra, a well-known translation of Buddhist teachings emphasizing compassion - to distribute information about HIV. The group later began documenting human-rights abuses against gay people, and its members sued to overturn Nepal's law criminalizing homosexuality. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court ruled in their favor. Four months later, Pant, who was the main petitioner in the case, became South Asia's first openly gay member of parliament. By the end of 2008, the Supreme Court issued its full...
...orders from the NYSE in the 1980s and '90s, brought more direct competition. Now things have broken wide open. Nasdaq and the NYSE are still the biggest players, but they must do daily battle with upstarts such as BATS and Direct Edge. Both exchanges have also gone from member cooperatives to for-profit companies - the NYSE by merging with electronic competitor Archipelago...
...scheme fail on its fifth time out? The first sign that something was up was the improbable amount of blood that an otherwise chipper-looking Williams spat out after his "injury" - the fake blood capsule released a volume of crimson so spectacular, it could choke a member of Kiss. Also, TV commentators covering the match live noted suspiciously that the injury had befallen Williams at the very moment the Harlequins needed a crack kicker to take the penalty. (The replacement kicker missed, handing Leinster a 5-6 win). And it didn't help that the video consulted after the match...
...believe they were made a scapegoat in 1990-91 by an American government that had decided to go to war with Iraq and did not want complications with Syria and Iran, which had harboured the real perpetrators of the terrible deed." - Sir Tam Dalyell, a member of Great Britain's House of Commons from 1962 to 2005, calling al-Megrahi "the victim of one of the most spectacular (and expensive) miscarriages of justice in history" (The Times of London...