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...holiday was appropriated a second time into secular American culture. Scottish and Irish immigrants brought the practices and observances of All Hallows' to the New World, and gradually it began to take on its rather innocent appearance. Today, of course, Halloween is a time for games, parties, trick-or-treating and watching horror movies (although rarely "scary" movies). Or is it? When we look at it closely, is there not something more to Halloween even today...
...McGregor cruised over from the U.K. and crashed onto the U.S. film scene last year with the brilliant Trainspotting, cinema got the adrenaline shot that the Pulp Fiction only purported to give. Trainspotting's startling ability to combine black humor, wit, romance, violence and pathos in a story about Scottish heroin addicts marked it as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. The team embraced their incredibly risky subject matter with energy and vigor, and managed to make commercially palatable a screenplay that Hollywood execs would have (and did) run from screaming...
Libyan leader Mommar Gadhafi has in the past offered to allow the suspects to stand trial in a third, neutral country before a Scottish judge--a move both the United States and Britain have rejected...
...enraged by the fact that it is now nine years ago," said Dr. Jim Swire. "A compromise is required and we accept the compromise of a trial under Scottish law in a neutral country...
...HAGUE: Almost nine years after Pan Am Flight 101 exploded over the remote Scottish town of Lockerbie, how close is justice for families of the 270 victims? That question could be answered Monday, as the International Court of Justice weighs in on the issue of where to try the two Libyans suspected of planting a suitcase bomb on board. Colonel Gaddhafi would like his two countrymen tried at the World court in the Hague or in an Arab country, claiming they won't have much of a chance in Washington or London. The Americans and British say this is another...