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...well as Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico. "For a country like Venezuela, it's really the only way to build a cinema infrastructure," says the adviser. As for the built-in politics of the Toussaint story, he likens it to other liberation struggles such as that of Scottish hero William Wallace, brought to the screen 12 years ago by Glover's Lethal Weapon co-star, Mel Gibson, in Braveheart...
...hours north of Aberdeen, Rosehearty is one in a cluster of small Scottish fishing communities on the edge of the North Sea. Battered by the dark waters that have caused untold losses of boats and men, the people here have long accepted a cruel bargain: the ocean gives fishermen their livelihood but it also owns a claim - redeemable at any time - on their lives. Forced to be stoic, they came to believe that no man could be blamed for the sea's wrath...
...product consumed by vagrants on park benches," says Maurice Pratt, C&C chief executive. Cider was commonly sold in large plastic bottles at discount prices, bolstering its cheap image. In Ireland, C&C's cider is called Bulmers Original (it's the same thing as Magners, but drinks company Scottish & Newcastle owns the Bulmers brand outside Ireland). Struggling with stagnant sales in the 1990s, C&C decided dowdy Bulmers needed a makeover. It cut the alcohol content to 4.5% (about the same as most beers) and intensified the apple flavor. More distinctively, the reformulated drink has been designed and marketed...
...empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
...better--particularly for the movie industry. The first two Shrek movies, which upended every fairy-tale clich they could get their meaty chartreuse paws on, grossed more than $700 million in the U.S. alone; there's little reason to believe that Shrek the Third won't fill its hungry Scottish maw with hundreds of millions more after it is released...