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...Beyond the court's remit lay the biggest questions, the ones that have not been subjected to the rigorous scrutiny of any judge, Scottish or otherwise, and may never be. Who besides al-Megrahi decided the plane should come down? Was Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and guardian of his country's perpetual revolution, the man who gave the nod? Might al-Megrahi and others have been set on their murderous task by others, such as the Iranians or a Palestinian terrorist group with close ties to Syria and Iran? What role if any did the realpolitik of the West...
...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 is not going to change," said Peter Lowenstein. That fact is beyond the remit of law and politics alike...
...much unclaimed property is out there? It's a huge number. States currently hold about $16 billion. Estimates of federal holdings--lost IRS refunds, undeliverable Social Security checks--run as high as $25 billion. Corporations that fail to remit assets to the states may hold an additional $100 billion. Funds lying dormant in state, federal and private retirement accounts and in group-life-insurance policies could total a staggering $1 trillion. Chew on that if, in your personal spending, you think little expenses...
...resolved. Working with the national Tax Association, they have been developing a simplified tax system. States would have to come up with a single rate and uniform definitions of goods and services that would apply to all jurisdictions within their states, and vendors would be able to easily remit taxes to the state where the purchase was received using newly developed software...
Kellner says the first year was "a disaster" as the WB battled for affiliates with the other start-up network, UPN. Traditionally, networks pay affiliates to carry their programming, but the WB offered no payments and went even further, asking the stations to remit a portion of their profits once they reached a certain level. Kellner's selling points were his team and the involvement of Warner Bros. and Tribune, but he was able to persuade only 54 stations to sign up. UPN, offering the traditional terms, started with nearly twice that many. Since then, though, the number...