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Rosenbloom, a joint concentrator in Classics and African-American studies, plans to spend the year studying Classics in Belfast...
Julia M. Rosenbloom '01, a native of Washington, D.C. and Lowell House, will be studying at Queens College in Belfast next year. Ehrin N. Johnson, a second year student at Harvard Medical School from Lincolnville, MA, will be studying biotechnology at the University of Ulster...
...like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night, did the extraterrestrial conspiracy theories of Art Bell and his guests. The Radio Right needed a new hook, and a close presidential election was just the thing to energize the commentators and their faithful. Gore...
...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
...hovered constantly over even the most encouraging signs. How--and why--would the I.R.A. agree to give up its arms? The 1998 Good Friday agreement requires paramilitaries to hand over or render useless their weapons by May. But the mood in the air, and on the graffitied walls of Belfast, suggests that the I.R.A.'s hard men still see the destruction of their arms as a humiliation, not a gesture of peace. And though Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has not abandoned the May deadline, the I.R.A. will need to destroy a few weapons before London will defrost the government...