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Troubles past: Northern Ireland conflict remembered
by Stephen Bates As a memorial it may have somewhat lacked the poignancy of a Remembrance Sunday or the sense of devastating loss from the trenches of the first world war, but yesterday, with due ceremony, the longest British military deployment in history – the…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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US assured State that CIA flights never used Shannon
Original Source JOHN ZAROCOSTAS in Geneva THE GOVERNMENT received assurances from US president George Bush and his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that no extraordinary rendition took place at Shannon airport, the Attorney General, Paul Gallagher has told a UN expert panel on human rights.…
Author: The Irish Times
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A Time to Serve
As the Constitutional Convention of 1787 came to a close, after three and a half months of deliberation, a lady asked Dr. Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” replied the Doctor, “if you can keep it.” –…
Author: Time Magazine
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Kennedy enjoys the last laugh
It is Tuesday afternoon and US senator Ted Kennedy is sitting in his shirt sleeves in a grand executive office in Stormont which, no doubt, once belonged to a unionist minister. Thomas Foley, the US ambassador to Ireland, and Paula Dobriansky, George Bush’s envoy to…
Author: The Sunday Business Post
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The Poetic Souls of Middle School
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301170.html Serena McIntyre is barely 12, but already the Columbia Heights sixth-grader has suffered the slings and arrows of middle-school fortune. A boy did her wrong. So she wrote “The Love-Drained Blues.” I fell in love. With a so sweet boy When I came here…
Author: The Washington Post