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Pidgeon's songs contain echoes of the myths and legends of old Europe. "There was an old witch/ Used to live in this house," goes The Witch. "Now I'm making it mine." Pidgeon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, raised in Scotland and educated in England, and her music reflects her background. Perhaps because she and her husband have roots on different continents, several of the CD's songs deal with flying and separation. "It takes a long time to get over there," she sings on Seven Hours, co-written with Mamet. "Nearly seven hours in the air ... From...
...wave of terror, personified by Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, is ebbing. "Carlos," says Paul Wilkinson, an expert on terrorism at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "symbolized a terrorism of the extreme left which has almost died out in Europe." Carlos and his Soviet, Marxist and leftist Palestinian allies represent failed ideologies. The inheritors today are nameless Islamic extremists from Hizballah, Hamas and their sponsors -- everyone thinks first of Iran as chief sponsor -- who see themselves as the force of the future in the Middle East. While their cause is the same -- derailing the peace process and destroying Israel -- the Islamists...
Libya has offered to let two of its citizens stand trial for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- but under certain conditions, a Scottish newspaper reported. According to the Scotsman, of Edinburgh, Libyan authorities suggested to a visiting British lawmaker that two suspected Libyan intelligence agents be tried in a third country. But Britain, which has already charged the two men, rejected the offer unless Libyan capo Muammar Gaddafi allows the proceedings on British or U.S. soil. Why's Libya reaching out now? Gaddafi reportedly wants to rid the strapped country of U.N. sanctions imposed...
Reached while vacationing in Scotland, Green, now the Leverett professor of political economy, said of the memo, "I think it speaks for itself...
...mail-order bride of Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), a farmer in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand whom she has never met. Together with her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin) and her piano, Ada makes the long voyage by sea from Scotland to New Zealand. When Stuart arrives to meet her, he refuses to transport her piano to their house, leaving it on the beach...