Word: belfast
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Maybe nobody told Martin Scorsese the American film epic was a dead form. Or maybe Scorsese was too stubborn to give up a project he had nurtured since 1970, when the epic was still the genre du jour and, on Belfast's mean streets, Protestants and Catholics were spilling one another's blood in a replay of the New York City Irish-Anglo gang wars of the 1860s, which Scorsese was itching to dramatize. Then Star Wars changed the landscape of the epic from our own martial planet to a galaxy far, far away. Today when audiences go into...
...sure to love is the time stamp that indicates when each story was posted to the Net. This has the effect of letting you watch the news age before your eyes. Minutes after Reuters published a story last week about Northern Irish police invading a Sinn Fein office in Belfast, the news appeared on Google, time-stamped "5 minutes...
...Northern Ireland can't even agree on the name of the treaty they signed four years ago to end the Troubles. Catholics call it the Good Friday agreement after the holy day on which it was reached. To many Protestants that seems irreverent, so they call it the Belfast agreement. But each side argues that its commitment to the agreement's principles is greater than the other's. So how have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London...
...power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major police operation in which documents were seized and arrests were made across Belfast. Two hundred officers staged raids on half a dozen homes, starting just before dawn. Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont. The searches were prompted by a theft that occured just a few hundred meters from Sinn Fein...
...protesters' ranks included both longtime opponents of war in general and some MPs who believe the U.S. call for military action - and the British response to that call - is a thinly veiled response to threats on oil supplies. Labour MP Alan Simpson told the Belfast News Letter, "Sadly, I think Bush will hit Iraq in much the same way that a drunk will hit a bottle. He needs to satisfy his thirst for power and oil." Simpson then dismissed Blair's report as "deeply flawed, partial and superficial," according to the paper...