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...weapons as international inspectors looked on. The move was meant to impress pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing at all about how many weapons were destroyed. David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party...
...testimony. With Northern Ireland's peace process in deadlock and its government in limbo, dissident republicans are trying to fill the vacuum with violence. McKevitt was joined in prison by eight men accused of training at a camp run by the Continuity I.R.A., another dissident group, and Belfast is regularly brought to a halt by bomb scares. "The dissidents are always a threat," says one British security source, "but there is definitely a higher-level threat at the moment." Thanks to good intelligence, police on both sides of the border are regularly intercepting members of the I.R.A. factions as they...
...three hours. Despite the devout exertions of Kidman and a fine cast, Dogville plays like the read-through of a potentially fascinating play. Now Von Trier should go ahead and make the movie. Elephant is a loose remake of Alan Clarke's 1989 bbc film about gunmen in Belfast. Van Sant takes the notion of civilians as target practice and transposes it to America. Most of the film describes, with no special urgency, a typical day at a generic high school: a blond boy arriving late because he has been caring for his alcoholic father; an athlete and his pretty...
...Finucane took a different path. He became a defense lawyer, fighting the authorities in the courtroom instead of the streets. Yet it was he, not his brothers, who was gunned down by masked men in 1989 as he sat down to dinner with his wife and three children in Belfast. And his death may hold an even greater irony: in his grave, Pat Finucane is doing far greater damage to the British government in Northern Ireland than his brothers who took up arms against it. Last week the U.K.'s largest police investigation reported that the military and police...
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...