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Speaking last night at the Kennedy School of Government, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern hailed new hope in Northern Ireland and pushed for the United States to work closely with the United Nations in the global fight against Islamic terrorism...
...Ahern was elected Taoiseach (prime minister in Gaelic) of Ireland in 1997 and played a major role in the creation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. His speech received two standing ovations...
...another chance to prove their commitment to the ballot box instead of the gun. Fortunately, a number of neutral assembly members have declared their willingness to support Trimble in an attempt to keep the peace process moving forward. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must press ahead and ensure that these moderate voices remain ascendant. If all sides make a serious effort to grasp this new opportunity, perhaps Northern Ireland can at last receive the peace and stability that so many of its residents have long desired and deserved...
Events could move quickly: the blueprint for preserving the new political institutions has been in place since July. Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, were unable to close the deal then because the I.R.A. pulled up at the final hurdle - actually getting rid of some guns. Unionists forced the arms issue into the 1998 Good Friday agreement as a way of showing that paramilitary groups were serious about abandoning violence. Republicans saw it as a call for surrender, and the I.R.A. issued its response: "Not a bullet...
...home after fourth grade. On the whole, he valued the experience. But if he could change anything about his teen years, he would want more interaction with people his age. "I don't date, and that's something I attribute to home schooling," he says. Or consider Rachel Ahern, 21, of Grand Junction, Colo., who never set foot in a classroom until she went to Harvard at 18. As a child, she socialized with older kids and adults at church and in music classes at a nearby college. "I never once experienced peer pressure," she says. But is that...