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...public outrage over the attacks suggests that if ETA was behind them, it may have signed its own death warrant. "Some people think we drink champagne when attacks happen," says Ainhoa Osinalde, spokeswoman for Pagotxeta, a pro-independence group close to Batasuna, the banned party often described as ETA's political wing. "That's not true. We have to do everything we can to stop these things from happening again." Many moderate Basque nationalists share ETA's goal of independence while condemning its terrorist tactics, but even the few people who still support the armed struggle will likely be repulsed...
...real people.) To Swearengen, the formula is simple: former lawman + gunfighter = nascent police force, especially when the two stumble on a massacre-robbery perpetrated by "road agents" working for him. It seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker); and E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner and Swearengen's beaten...
...hopelessly miscast. Fischer, the champion of the American way, was an antisocial, anti-Semitic egomaniac who complained about the lighting, the auditorium, the prize money, even the marble the chessboard was made of. Spassky, the cog in the Soviet machine, was a genial, sensitive fellow who liked a drink once in a while. He was Ali to Fischer's Foreman. Of course, Fischer ate him alive. Bobby Fischer Goes to War tells the story in fine, brisk style, interpreting the red-hot chess-fu action--the Ruy Lopez opening! The Nimzo-Indian defense!--for us nongeniuses and conveying the richness...
This evoked amens from the predominantly black and Hispanic audience, as did Bush's introduction of John Baker, founder of a faith-based treatment program: "Big John is with us ... He and I shared something in common ... We used to drink too much." And cheers and laughter when he later explained the rules for funding such programs: "You can't use federal money to proselytize ... You can't, if you're a faith-based organization, say, 'Only Methodists allowed' ... You can say, 'All drunks are welcome...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Anyone for a Drink? The University of Manchester admitted employing a man who'd earlier been jailed for attempting to poison his wife. His new job: lecturer on medical ethics. Paul Agutter was convicted in 1995 of lacing his wife's gin and tonic with deadly atropine. To cover his tracks, he placed bottles of tonic water spiked with the poison on supermarket shelves. The University said it had followed "due process" in the appointment...