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...Love (2000) have won in recent years. But, in fact, what was once one of the world's busiest film industries has been in financial and creative decline for some time. With just 50 homegrown movies hitting the city's cinemas, last year's output was a dismal shadow of the annual 200-plus figures of the early 1990s and a deeply worrying development for an industry whose output has been enjoyed by millions and inspired directors from Quentin Tarantino to Martin Scorsese...
...Dominic Grieve, the opposition Conservative Party's Shadow Home Secretary, took aim at the government. "This is the latest in a long line of security disasters to hit the government, and it shows how organized criminals will target identity documents," he said...
...inability of the police to tackle the gangs has spawned vigilante groups such as El Salvador's Sombra Negra (Black Shadow), which has been gunning down deported youths since 1994. Death squads have caught on in Honduras, too, where human rights workers say they've killed over 180 gang members over the past two years. Suspected of being off-duty cops and soldiers hired by local businessmen, these groups are not particularly discriminating. "Any kid who has a tattoo is fair game," says Human Rights Commission member Hugo Maldonado. Sociologist Ernesto Bordales concurs. "The general feeling here is that...
...very good position, but we mustn't let it go to our heads," says Ed Vaizey, a member of the Conservative shadow cabinet. "This [Glasgow East result] can only put massive pressure on Gordon Brown's leadership...
...bedroom. The decision was hailed by gay activists as a landmark, but it also apparently heartened Jeffs. (It was soon cited by defense attorneys in their plans to appeal the 2003 conviction of a Utah man found guilty of underage sex and bigamy.) Says Mankin: "They thought the shadow of Waco would protect them, and they hung a lot of hope on Lawrence v. Texas...