Word: points
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...point, members of the family actually debated whether to inter the deceased King of Pop in his Neverland estate. Indeed, his brother Jermaine told Larry King that Neverland would have been ideal. "I'm just concerned about security and being secure in a peaceful setting," he said. But Neverland was not popular with all the Jackson family members. There were too many negative associations with Michael's once beloved home: police raided the place in 2005 looking for evidence to be presented in his molestation trial. "That destroyed the magic for him, it really did," his nephew Taj Jackson tells...
...cult appeal of Office Space, a movie told from the point of view of the office drone, has always puzzled me a bit, but the truth is, I watched it from my couch, on DVD, always a soporific setting. I'm happy to have seen Extract in a theater, where the largeness of the screen allows the smallness of the movie to grow on you, and where every subtle comic twitch on Bateman's face can be seen and appreciated. There's nothing vanilla about...
...another trial, SM was asked to walk toward an experimenter and stop at the point at which she felt the distance was comfortable. SM walked until her nose was virtually touching the experimenter's, all the while saying she felt perfectly at ease...
...That's at best a moot point. The Prime Minister criticized Libya's jubilant homecoming ceremonies for al-Megrahi but has yet to comment on the decision to let al-Megrahi go. Brown "stands accused of double-dealing, on the one hand apparently saying to the Americans they wanted Megrahi to die in prison, but on the other hand saying privately to the Libyans that they wanted him released," said Conservative Party leader David Cameron, calling for an inquiry into the affair. Brown angrily rejected that interpretation of events: "On our part, there was no conspiracy, no cover...
...There may be little an inquiry could discover that cannot be gleaned from the documents, which reveal how Britain's clumsy realpolitik and the ambitions of the nationalist-led Scottish government to assert independence from Westminster led to a messy outcome. On one point at least, conspiracy theorists were wrong: this was never all about oil. Preserving and expanding Britain's commercial interests in Libya was always a part of the equation, but so too was a desire to seal Libya's rehabilitation...