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...ACCUSED: Megrahi's fate is unclear. Former FBI investigator Marquise readily admits the case against him is based on "a series of circumstances," and all must be true for Megrahi to be guilty. With a tiny fragment of circuit board found at the crash site, investigators pinned the bomber to an unusual style of Swiss timer, manufactured by a firm that claimed to supply the Libyan military. Clothing scraps from the suitcase carrying the explosive device were linked to a source in Malta. And the Maltese shopkeeper identified Megrahi (many months after the bombing) as the Libyan who bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...walk in, the gargoyle will be right there to greet you,” said Loker Commons Project Manager Zachary A. Corker ’04, who has previously served as campus fun czar. Also on display will be a 500-pound fragment of the Memorial Hall bell, cracked in the same fire, Corker said. Officially known as the Cambridge Queen’s Head, the pub has been in the works for more than two years. Its debut has been delayed twice over the past year due to construction hold-ups. While the original Southwark pub burned down...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pub Set to Open, Faithful to Old English Roots | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...look is too often neutralized, made listless, by all the talk. There are many long dialogues, shot in Cyclopsian closeup. Trying to give the orations more heft, the actors shout them, often pausing after each sentence fragment - as Leonidas does in this iambic-pentameter invocation to his troops: "Eat hearty. For tonight. We dine, In hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...with extreme discretion, but over time Savitsky amassed more than 50,000 pieces of Gulag-era art, tracking them down in hiding places all over the Soviet Union and smuggling them to his desert sanctuary. Today, this trove can be experienced for a $4 entrance fee - or rather a fragment can, because there is no space to display it all. (Another fraction can be viewed at the museum's old premises nearby.) Ironically, it turned out that Savitsky had less to fear from the authorities - who came to know of his work but turned a blind eye - than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Flower | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...bass line. Thankfully, Sony Ericsson[an error occurred while processing this directive] is ending that frustration with two new Walkman phones that enable on-the-spot music identification. With Track ID, a technology powered by a company called Gracenote, the W850i and W950i phones can capture a song fragment wherever you hear it, and send it to Gracenote's Mobile Music ID (MMID) database for identification. In seconds the title and artist are sent to your phone display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Name That Tune | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

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