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...nose off just recently," says an assistant in the gift shop. In fact, the statue has been repeatedly vandalized. Many Scots cringe at the tribute to Gibson's movie, but the number of visitors to the monument almost doubled the year after the film was released, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) smelled a political opportunity: it handed out leaflets featuring Gibson's image to exiting moviegoers, hoping to fuel its campaign for Scotland to secede from the United Kingdom...
...Just over a decade later, the SNP is set to become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament. In polls leading up to the May 3 election, it's about six percentage points ahead of the Labour Party, which has not lost an election in Scotland for 50 years. That's not enough to form a majority government, but it's a powerful position from which to enter coalition talks, possibly with the Liberal Democrats...
...might hold some allure, but the old union still means something to many Scots. An April poll found that 67% would prefer the status quo or more powers to the Scottish Parliament, with only 22% backing independence. An earlier poll, on the other hand, showed 52% of the Scottish public supporting independence - and an even higher percentage of English in favor of Scots separation...
...Oscar for Best Actor, but few saw his performance onscreen. Now, at home, viewers can see what all the fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense horror of Amin's genocidal rule...
...busy, bubbling kitchen, the young Scottish chef-patron Dan Hall brews up the magic that lifts the Casablanca well beyond a haunt for expats with creative pretensions to a place of pilgrimage for true foodies. A dish like slow-roasted fillet of Wagyu beef with roasted veal sweetbreads, caramelized carrot purée and a sherry vinegar gastrique may be a mouthful to order, but every bite confirms the brilliance of its conception. Plainer fare such as wild mushroom arancini with leek purée, white asparagus emulsion and cep vinaigrette showcase the intense flavors of locally grown vegetables. Hall...