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...reading from his second book. His talent first appeared in Angela's Ashes, the hugely successful childhood memoir that won a Pulitzer Prize. 'Tis is the sequel to that story, beginning with McCourt's journey to America on the MS Irish Oak in 1949, and ending in Belfast, 1985. In between, we experience first-hand the trials and triumphs of an American immigrant, from his days sweeping the lobby of the Biltmore hotel to striding down the halls of Stuyvesant as a respected teacher...
...wasn't your usual after-dinner speech," said Sephen Livingstone, an HLS graduate and law professor from Belfast...
...Mitchell vowed Thursday to press on with his attempts to revive the peace process, saying he hadn?t been so na?ve as to expect a smooth implementation of last year?s historic Good Friday Agreement. "I am not surprised, but I am disappointed," said Mitchell, after holding meetings in Belfast with Northern Ireland?s political parties. His job got a lot harder overnight, following an IRA statement that not only dimmed hopes of imminent disarmament but actually contained veiled threats of renewed violence, and also blamed the collapse of the peace process on Britain for failing to stand...
...same goes for schools (Catholics and Protestants by and large go to segregated schools), pubs (also largely segregated) and neighborhoods (where to be a Catholic living in a Protestant area can put you in actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day Belfast, and although there is hope that things will change in the months and years to come (especially with the implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement), one can hardly wipe away several centuries of animosity in the space of a mere decade...
...politics aside, however, Belfast is a pretty nifty place for the 20-something American college student (myself, for example). There are gobs of cosmopolitan student pubs at the center of town, serving up truly amazing amounts of alcohol seven days a week. There's a ten-screen megaplex just down the road offering unlimited movies all summer for the ridiculous price of $35.00. There's an internet cafe, great Indian food and the BBC broadcasting commercial-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week...