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...ayodhya is a name mostly associated with conflict, like Beirut or Belfast. But in reality it's a charming temple town on the banks of the Saryu River just south of the Himalayas. It has plenty of places of worship, mostly Hindu but also Muslim. Its renown is based on the fact that Rama, hero of the eponymous epic Ramayana, is believed to have been born there...
...major political party in Western Europe. He's the joint chief of Northern Ireland's government and helped craft much of the subtle, resilient language in the 1998 Good Friday agreement which has kept that government afloat through many storms. So why, when a group of veteran Belfast politicians held forth at the World Economic Forum in New York last week, didn't he leave the graybeards in the dust? He was perfectly competent, sometimes eloquent. But he didn't light up the room - which is not good news for the cause of moderate nationalism he leads, already suffering...
...NORTHERN IRELAND Sectarian Madness A row between two women outside a primary school in the divided Ardoyne area of north Belfast degenerated into two nights of rioting involving hundreds of opposed nationalists and loyalists. Police said 82 officers were injured and several vehicles set alight. A 20-year-old Catholic man was shot dead by a loyalist group that was also involved in last week's rioting...
...anonymous terrorist also got his grim deserts, "because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard - he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself...
...Because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard, and by whatever method he uses, from anthrax to hijacked planes, he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself. - Kathleen Beckett, New York...