The movie, detailing the violent emergence of Irish and Italian American gangs in 1860s Manhattan, is the Titanic star's long-awaited 'comeback' film, two years after his Danny Boyle-directed flop, The Beach.
We have some idea what to expect: prohibition, Jazz Age excess fuelled by bootleg liquor and economic good times, the violent emergence of a criminal power structure that will dominate the mid-century, and a Sin City ablaze with civic corruption, murder, malfeasance, gambling and booze-soaked debauchery.
The violent re-emergence of Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (known by its French acronym, the GSPC), which has rebranded itself as al-Qaeda's branch in the Maghreb, is particularly alarming.
The violent re-emergence of Valleywag; the unfortunate and erroneous abstraction of Sean Parker's wedding, which, for all intents and purposes, should be a private event, into a symbol of Silicon Valley "excess"; the breathless coverage in alternative publications of our bacon-wrapped ways; and even The New Yorker weighing in, again and again.
In Egypt, Libya and Syria, concern is mounting about the emergence of violent fringe groups whose influence has already been felt out of all proportion to their size.
THE EMERGENCE of violent Islamism in the heart of the Western world, and the "war on terror" proclaimed against it, led to some interesting ideological trends.
Nevertheless, voters have been unimpressed by the Islamists' two years at the helm of government, in 2012 13, particularly its inability to pull the economy out of stagnation and its failure to quash the emergence of violent jihadism.
While Allen takes us back to the emergence of violent Wahhabism in the 1740s, Rogerson, in his exploration of the origins and implications of the Sunni-Shia divide, even goes so far as to say that he has deliberately "kept contemporary politics out of the book".
For the first time Catholics were claiming rights within Northern Ireland rather than demanding the overthrow of the state, and it was the inflexible government's blindness to this opportunity — and the consequent emergence of violent republicanism — that had such tragic consequences for the province.
It describes a number of common arguments regarding possibilities for the emergence of violent conflict in and among Basin states, particularly those states party to the Okavango River Basin Commission (Okacom)—Angola, Botswana and Namibia.
But the emergence of violent opposition to the Assad regime in the spring of 2011 led to a split between the two leaders that quickly became rancorous.
