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...WHAT TEST An effective counterfactual scenario should checkmate critics who argue that things would have worked out the same way anyway (e.g., if Hitler had perished in the muddy trenches, some other fanatic would have taken his place. Maybe, but most historians see Hitler as an extremist, even for a Nazi--and one with a lot of charisma to boot). Counterfactualists tend to support the Great Man Theory of history...
...Sheridan, the director and co-writer here, who also worked with Day-Lewis on My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, may have figured that subtlety has no place in a story about the lunatic fervor of Irish extremist politics. Or maybe he figured his cast could make the gritty fantasy plausible. Day-Lewis very nearly does. His laser stare and world-class rope skipping, his very devotion to the project, elevate the film to check-it-out status and get the crowd cheering for him and his quest. Even in a slim tale like The Boxer...
Belfast Braces for a Bloody New Year Killings by both Republican and Unionist splinter groups have left Northern Ireland bracing for further bloodshed. The peace process can survive extremist attacks, but can it survive the politics of its participants...
...Party grandees are falling over themselves to denounce the treaty, and paint Gore ? who showed his spirit at Kyoto Sunday ? as an extremist. You can tell it's a campaign issue when Steve Forbes comes out of the woodwork: the once-and-future presidential wannabe called Kyoto "an unprecedented government seizure of American freedom and sovereignty." Jack Kemp, still smarting from the '96 Veep debate, described it as "dangerous...
...expected him to be a stiff, rightwing extremist," Aneesh V. Venkataraman '01 said. "He spoke to a crowd of old people but he was able to reach the young people...