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...Ahern left empty-handed. And Trimble, who's been hammered within the unionist camp for his previous deals with republicans, was derided by his many critics as a "pushover" for failing to penetrate I.R.A. secrecy. The only person to emerge stronger from the mess was Ian Paisley, the fiery, bluff leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, who loathes the peace process as a sellout. The Good Friday agreement was supposed to make Paisley, 77, yesterday's man; last week's antics may make him the power broker for a new administration and doom any future agreement between republicans and unionists...
...whose work ranges from grit (Tigerland) to glitz (Batman & Robin). Screenwriters Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donaghue are also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan), who comes out of hiding only to brutalize the innocent...
Limbaugh answered the challenges with his usual mix of bluff and bluster. He refused to apologize for the McNabb jab, saying he was only attacking the liberal media, and added that he was unfairly singled out: "Sean Hannity [a right-wing spieler] could have said it, and ... it wouldn't have even gotten noticed." True enough: racial slurs and racist humor are common in the frat-house atmosphere of talk radio, whether the format is politics (Michael Savage, Bob Grant) or comedy and news (Howard Stern, Don Imus). But a Sunday morning TV sports show--on a cable network that...
Some analysts suspect that Saddam's game was a sly form of deterrence: keep the U.S. and his neighbors guessing about the extent of his arsenal to prevent a pre-emptive attack. A bluff like that had worked for him before: in 1991, during an uprising among Iraqi Kurds in Kirkuk, soldiers inside helicopters dropped a harmless white powder onto the rebels below, terrifying them into thinking it was a chemical attack. The Kurds retreated, and the uprising collapsed. Hans Blix, head of the U.N. inspection team that entered Iraq last November and left just before the war, told Australian...
Both TV shows help you see how analytical and brassy the best players are by displaying the odds of victory as the cards are dealt. And whether or not you've played poker (and more than 50 million Americans have), it's thrilling to see a guy with zip bluff $300,000 out of someone with a pair of kings. The difference between the shows is that ESPN has the superior event. World Poker Tour is made-for-TV entertainment, whereas the World Series has been an annual event at Binion's since 1970. Anyone who posts...