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...used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies to the tough questions. But the patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that too, and that's why I'm a Democrat...
...Irish pubs these days are almost as common as pizzerias the world over, so when Vladimir V. Luchina wanted to come up with a more original theme for a bar in Yekaterinburg, a Russian city in the Urals, he hit on the idea of a Scottish pub. Gordon's, which opened 18 months ago, is now one of the hottest places in town, particularly on weekend nights when local rock 'n' roll groups with names like the Spoilers play. Luchina has tried hard to make Gordon's look straight from the Highlands. Barmen wear kilts, a set of bagpipes adorns...
...Shipping beer the 4,000 km from Scotland has proved too much of a challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero Duncan MacLeod) and Dundee lamb chop are on offer, as is an Orkney Island salad?although the menu acknowledges with disarming honesty that, while the calamari it's made of are very fresh, "O.K. maybe they're not brought in all the way from Scotland...
...Irish pubs these days are almost as common as pizzerias the world over, so when Vladimir V. Luchina wanted to come up with a more original theme for a bar in Yekaterinburg, a Russian city in the Urals, he hit on the idea of a Scottish pub. Gordon's, which opened 18 months ago, is now one [an error occurred while processing this directive] of the hottest places in town, particularly on weekend nights when local rock 'n' roll groups with names like the Spoilers play. Luchina has tried hard to make Gordon's look straight from the Highlands. Barmen...
...sexual politics of its heroine (the sulkily charismatic Hao Lei). She and her sex scenes were hot stuff, but the movie's critical response was tepid. Three war movies also failed to astound: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World...