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Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 37: "Introduction to the Bible in the Humanities and the Arts," which counts toward Literature and Arts A. (Granted, this is Gordon Teskey, and he's awesome...
...murky as conspiracy theorists might have imagined. While the British government made a public show of neutrality on the issue, saying any change in al-Megrahi's status was a matter for Scotland, it turns out that a British minister once gave assurances to Libya that neither Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor his Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, "would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison." This revelation, embedded in one of the newly released minutes of a meeting between Scottish and Libyan officials that was held in Glasgow in March 2009, has been confirmed by Miliband...
...inquiry into the affair. Brown angrily rejected that interpretation of events: "On our part, there was no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil, no attempt to instruct Scottish ministers, no private assurances by me to Colonel Gaddafi." (Watch a TIME video with Gordon Brown...
...letter sent to the SEC in mid-August that any proposal to increase shareholders’ influence on board member selection needs to be more restrictive. They wrote that speculators and raiders—the kind epitomized by “Wall Street’s” Gordon Gekko—have little long-term interest in a given company and may sacrifice long-term viability for short-term profits...
...Scottish document in particular could cause grief for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who insists that Britain had nothing to do with al-Megrahi's release. By contrast, the document, the minutes of a March 2009 meeting between Libyan and Scottish officials, says a Libyan minister recounted being told by British Foreign Minister Bill Rammell "that neither the prime minister [Brown] nor the foreign secretary [David Miliband] would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison, but the decision on transfer lies in the hands of the Scottish ministers." If the critically ill al-Megrahi died in jail, the Libyan minister...