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...contain." Adds TIME's Barry Hillenbrand, who spent many years in the London and Tokyo bureaus, "Whenever this happens in the U.S., there's a lot of hand-wringing and then nothing is done. But when an adult shot a number of children at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, the government entirely banned the private possession of handguns...
...SCOTLAND --First among nations to put all its records online; Scots origins www.origins.net/GRO is a must see for anyone with clan ties. Also see www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm...
Perhaps it was his isolation in a rural part of Scotland (the bucolic region of Midlothian, where he and his wife treasured long walks, gardening and the distinctive Scottish sport of curling) that permitted him to resist the naysayers. Or perhaps it was the isolation of the remote field of animal husbandry that fostered his originality...
Eventually, since this is a romantic imagining, Charlotte makes her way back to Scotland. And the phone rings. A voice says, "Charlotte, you may not remember me... " So the story ends as it should, though with both lovers so battered by the war and their time apart that only the most resolute cynic could cry "Mush alert!" and truly mean...
...liner notes to Breaking God's Heart, the debut album by Scotland's Hefner, contain three injunctions, which characterize Hefner rather well: "If you like this record send us one of yours. Be kind to small businesses. Buy more Beach Boys records." These are good sentiments, well meaning and empty headed. Such is their music. Hefner's Brit-pop inclinations are balanced by Antony Harding's vocals, which careen from Elvis Costello to the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano--although the lyrics never come close to the wit or heart of those...