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ANDREW MCCREATH Aberdeen, Scotland...
...nearly six weeks till Oscar Night, but in three major categories, maybe four, the race is all but officially over. Last night's Golden Globe ceremony certified what earlier critics' prizes have indicated: that Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland will win Best Actor, Helen Mirren in The Queen will take Best Actress and Dreamgirls' Jennifer Hudson is a dead cert for Best Supporting Actress...
...final term as president runs out in 2008. With Russia's oil-fueled economy booming - Putin has paid back much of the nation's foreign debt - he remains highly popular at home. But his legacy will remain controversial. Says Stephen White, professor of international relations at Glasgow University, Scotland: "As soon as the price of oil weakens, Russia's real problems - like corruption, low life expectancy and the economy's dependency on raw materials - will just get worse." Putin himself complains that his foreign critics remain mired in an outdated cold-war mindset, and exhorts Russians to work harder...
...only film this year to fully realize the aesthetic potential of violence is “The Last King of Scotland,” a movie in which the depicted killings serve as a metaphor for the Ugandan genocide and thus magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker’s magnetic and terrifying Idi Amin. But even when you forget that the film is about a historical tragedy, you still anxiously feel that everyone in the film is a piece of meat waiting to be hacked to pieces; when the butcher comes, it feels disturbingly right...
...Today, however, may prove to be his toughest test. After a painstaking, three-year, $8 million investigation, the former head of Scotland Yard issued an 832-page report confirming what common sense and all previous inquiries had suggested: that Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a Paris car accident because her chauffeur was drunk and speeding as he tried to outrace paparazzi on motorbikes. The Queen didn't order it, nor the CIA, nor MI6 or MI5 or anyone else - it was simply tragic bad luck...