Word: sonly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gaddafi thanked Britain for helping secure al-Megrahi's release. A British newspaper reported that Gaddafi's son (and possible successor) Seif al-Islam Gaddafi told al-Megrahi during the flight home that he was "on the table in all commercial, oil and gas agreements." British Foreign Secretary David Miliband vociferously rejects that claim, as does Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson, who twice met Seif this year. British officials must hope the brouhaha blows over soon. Because Libya's oil is light and low in sulfur, it is prized for being among the easiest to refine. And since Libya...
...beyond ironic that Kaplan, who died Aug. 23 at 90, became one of the central figures in the American meritocracy. The system was set up by reformers, but reformers from deep within the starchy education establishment. Kaplan, a dapper little man, the son of uneducated immigrants, was a complete outsider. He had gone into test prep only because he couldn't get into medical school...
We’ll venture to guess that the “Mr. Bartley” in the note is Billy Bartley, the son of the original founder and the restaurant's current manager and chef. After making so many Ted Kennedy burgers (famously described on the menu as “a plump, liberal amount of burger with cheddar cheese, mushrooms and French fries"), has Bartley decided it is time for him to be Ted Kennedy? Or is this morsel of a rumor just some more of Bartley’s tongue-in-cheek...
Hours after a massive search operation involving 11 aircraft and 2,000 personnel found Reddy's body deep in the jungles where his helicopter had crashed, the Congress party members in Andhra Pradesh banded together to press the party's central leadership to appoint his son, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, in his place. YSR, as the late chief minister was popularly known, was a giant in regional politics and had run a tightly centralized administration with himself as the locus of authority. He had designated no clear successor. Now, most legislators in the state, being staunch loyalists, are now displaying that...
...This is typical of Indian politics," says political analyst Amulya Ganguli, "Whenever a politician dies, they try to bring in their son, daughter or wife to cash in on the sympathy factor." Reddy junior, however, is a first-time Member of Parliament and a political novice in a state where his father rose to be a political giant by rescuing the Congress Party there from suicidal infighting...