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...small, beleaguered guerrilla group, fighting in the years immediately after World War I for independence from British rule, which was then being enforced by the Black and Tans, vicious and largely undisciplined soldiers recruited from the demobilized English army and functioning in Ireland as terrorist-enforcers of the status quo. Loach's film, written by Paul Laverty, focuses on a Sinn Fein (or revolutionist) "flying column" operating in County Cork, with special emphasis on a gentle young doctor, Damien (Cillian Murphy) and his more hot-headed brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who is the group's leader. Theirs is a life...
...wins an ambiguous victory - a treaty providing dominion status within the British Empire, a measure of self-rule but not full independence. Part of the IRA goes back to war; Damien, rather surprisingly among them, but with Teddy, even more surprisingly, donning the uniform of the Free State. If you guess, at this point, that the film is heading for a brother-against-brother tragedy, you would not be wrong...
...click onto an illogical idea, we instinctively emit a chuckle. This instinct has prevented many an enslaved people from becoming a damned people—the difference being that enslaved peoples know their enslavement is caused by an illogical madness, while the damned only consider it to be the status quo. The advancement of agendas and co-opting of history can expunge all, except that which is funny...
...felt apathy of Cabot residents, McEachern says he was pleased to see students responding to his environmental push. One student went so far as to report on the acting residential dean, pointing out that she left her lights on at night. With the power his REP leader status gave him, McEachern confronted the dean who then promised to flip the switch...
...faults in the guest worker system exposed by this case extend beyond DOL neglect and raise questions about the program's political status, say advocates for immigrants' rights. President Bush characterized guest worker programs as the panacea to U.S. immigration woes in his recent State of the Union address. On Tuesday, while in Mexico, he pledged his intention to push through an immigration bill that would expand the current guest worker programs. This comes on the heels of the release of an alarming report "Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the U.S." by the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose Immigrant...