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...Russian exile, granted asylum by Britain in 2003, travels with personal bodyguards, as befits a man who has amassed great wealth and fierce enemies. The Russian government has petitioned Britain to extradite Berezovsky to face fraud charges, while some, claim Berezovsky, have in mind other ends for him. Scotland Yard confirmed on July 18 that a man was arrested last month on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and deported to Russia. Berezovsky said he was the target; according to the Sun newspaper, the hit man planned to shoot Berezovsky at the Hilton hotel in London's Park Lane...
...golf was inhibited by Man's fundamental distrust of flight. Golfers believed that the walking game must also be terrestrial, and the best shots were hit low to the ground. This was particularly true in wind-battered Carnoustie, where nothing in the air is safe. In this part of Scotland, where golf has been played since the 1500s, even breeze-hardened seagulls are swept across fairways like errantly sliced golf balls. But the course, with par fours frequently stretching in excess of 450 yds. (411 m), proved too long for the standard earthbound strategy. That was the Carnoustie challenge...
When it became apparent that last month's car bomb attack on Glasgow airport had failed to wreak its intended carnage, people in Scotland felt able to relax, to relish even some of the slapstick quality of the attack's spectacular failure...
...What does the great man himself think about all this? From his home in Erskine outside Glasgow, where Smeaton, 31, lives with his parents, the man known as Scotland's new braveheart had turned from warrior to philosopher. He told TIME: "I find the whole thing quite strange, the way people have responded and the stuff on all the websites. I'm just going to ride with it, that...
...nails outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London. About the same time, parking authorities discovered a blue Mercedes containing a similar cocktail of matériel. The very next day, a green Jeep Cherokee filled with gas cylinders and fuel blasted through the check-in entrance of Glasgow Airport in Scotland, bursting into flames...