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...French daily Libération dubbed it the Irish ambush, while Le Monde called it the Irish alert. Both were right. In the curious way that democracy has of upsetting the best-laid plans of the proud and powerful, a strange coalition of Greens, anti-abortion activists, Irish nationalists and detractors of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern voted 54-46% against ratifying the European Union's Nice Treaty, and in so doing, managed to throw the ungainly process of reforming and expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit...
MACEDONIA Albanian Insurgents Provoke Strong Backlash The risk of renewed ethnic war drew closer when 10 members of the Macedonian security forces were killed in an ambush by Albanian extremists. The assaults triggered retaliatory strikes by government forces, who attacked several Albanian villages with helicopter gunships and artillery. Masked ethnic Macedonian civilians, outraged at the rebel ambush, rampaged through Albanian communities smashing shop windows and beating residents - the first time civilians took to the streets since violence first erupted a month ago. The rebels say they are fighting for Albanian rights but have yet to distinguish their claims from those...
...Senator Chuck Hagel Republican of Nebraska My brother and I were in the 9th Infantry Division. We had responsibility for the Mekong Delta, so I'm familiar with the general area where Kerrey's incident occurred. Our mission was to search and destroy, kill the enemy, run ambush patrols. I don't ever really replay (killings) at all. I learned a long time ago that that's a torture I don't wish to put myself through. (But) you can't help having certain recollections when something like (Kerrey's story) comes to light. What you do is you start...
...Ambush is no more than a straight (and twisty) demolition derby, but Lee's Chosen, about the little Buddha, has a burlier and jollier tone than his features. And Wong's The Follow is a fine, full movie in miniature, a perfect showcase for the director's obsessions: voiceover, slo-mo, the glancing connection of two lonely souls in the night. The Hire does his job, trailing a beautiful woman (Adriana Lima). When the two meet, they don't speak or touch; he gazes at her as she sleeps. But her loveliness persuades him to let her escape...
...outtakes, Fincher lured a U.N. of directorial talent: Hollywood's John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), Taiwan's Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Britain's Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros). Frankenheimer's short, Ambush, premiered last week on bmwfilms.com The next two, Lee's and Wong's, will appear...