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...sanctions and remove Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. But the ever-erratic ruler may succeed in scuttling any agreement before the fact. Asked directly if Libya was now, for the first time, accepting full blame for the Lockerbie atrocity - for which a Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence agent in 2001 - Gaddafi dodged: "Is it not unbelievable that a responsible country, a member of the U.N., would do such an act? Libya was a leading country to condemn such acts." Western diplomats agree that progress is being made but won't confirm Gaddafi's claim...
...there are plenty of buyers. The U.K.'s Scottish & Newcastle will soon have up to €3.25 billion to spend after selling off nearly 1,500 of its pubs later this year, and a year ago, South African Breweries (SAB) bought America's Miller Brewing Company to create SABMiller - now the world's second-largest brewer, and a company hungry for European expansion. That may have awakened Anheuser-Busch - No. 1 in the world, which has fat profit margins in the U.S., where it gets more than 80% of its sales. At one time, the company had ruled out European...
...style, however, was different from Franklin's. It was graced with rolling cadences and mellifluous phrases, soaring in their poetry and powerful despite their polish. In addition, Jefferson drew on a depth of philosophy not found in Franklin. He echoed both the language and grand theories of English and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, most notably the concept of natural rights propounded by John Locke, whose Second Treatise on Government he had read at least three times. And he built his case, in a manner more sophisticated than Franklin would have, on a contract between government and the governed that was founded...
...idea of "self-evident" truths was one that drew less on Locke, who was Jefferson's favored philosopher, than on the scientific determinism espoused by Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of Franklin's close friend David Hume. In what became known as "Hume's fork," the great Scottish philosopher had developed a theory that distinguished between "synthetic" truths that describe matters of fact (such as "London is bigger than Philadelphia") and "analytic" truths that are so by virtue of reason and definition ("the angles of a triangle total 180 degrees"; "all bachelors are unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter...
...armada of related merchandise, J.K. Rowling has a fortune estimated at $450 million, according to the London Sunday Times rich list, making her $50 million wealthier than the Queen of England. Her personal life has picked up too. She has bought multimillion-dollar houses in London, Edinburgh and the Scottish hills near Perth. And at the end of 2001, Rowling, 37, married Neil Murray, 31, a steady, brainy anesthetist she had met through a mutual friend. Last March they had a son David, who joins Jessica, 11, the daughter from her brief first marriage. Rowling has admitted that--no surprise...