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...unflinching powers of observation. Another cautionary teen tale, Sweet Sixteen, directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty (winner of Cannes' Scenario prize), is distinguished by its clear-eyed sympathy for a bright kid who thinks he can win his mum's love only by dealing drugs. The Scottish star, non-actor Martin Compston, 17, is marvelous - a screen natural. A few works offered blessed escape. Escape into musical rapture: the Bollywood drama Devdas, one of the most visually ravishing films ever made. Escape into brilliant technique: Alexander Sukorov's Russian Ark, which takes a tour of St. Petersburg...
...team's chances, pepping up in-form players by dropping them from the team - still buying room for maneuver and maintaining control. At Manchester United, Ferguson has found a layer of charm and some outside interests to relax into, but Crick's account of his early stewardship of lowlier Scottish teams is a running riot of flying teacups, brawls and spats over petty cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism...
...believes she received her calling from God, yet must measure her success through tabloids and pollsters. An elderly white aristocrat raised to believe in Empire, she is expected to embody a whole multicultural nation now wrestling with complex questions of what it means to be British-and English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish...
...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...
...over by a long shot. Last week more than 400 British Royal Marines from 3 Commando Brigade were helicoptered to 11,000 ft. up in the mountains around Shah-i-Kot in eastern Afghanistan for a five-day operation dubbed Ptarmigan (after a type of Scottish grouse known for its ability to camouflage itself and thrive at high altitudes). The objective: to sweep the area where Operation Anaconda, the biggest battle of the war, was fought last month. Though it was the third major ground search since the end of Anaconda, the Marines found previously undetected caches of ammunition...