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...increasingly, people in Northern Ireland are no longer willing to turn a blind eye. "The people are trying to tell the I.R.A. they want them to go away," says Michael McConville, whose mother was killed by the group in 1972. "They're starting to stand up to them. Years ago, they would never have stood up to them." Let down by the movement they once expected to protect their rights, republican communities are beginning to rediscover their own power to protect themselves...
...manga - though her characters are hardly cartoons. Sato, who retains his dignity through crippling setbacks, could have stepped from the delicate pages of Kazuo Ishiguro or Jane Austen. Watanabe, resourceful despite his youthful delusions, would interest David Foster Wallace or Nick Hornby. Only Mary, fluent in Japanese but blind to the signals and intrigues of nearly everyone around her, can't seem to get a grip. Of course, in that failing she is no worse than all those other Westerners who imagine they know Japan...
...realize that many students are concerned that our efforts will hurt financial aid for future students. However, despite its lofty language, the traditional Senior Gift does not directly improve financial aid. Harvard is 100 percent need-blind and in competition with other top schools for the country’s brightest students—future generations will receive aid in accordance with standing policy regardless of the Senior Gift...
...Brolsma and for Ciarelli both, the Internet has been much like the Harvard tenure process: a ruthless and uncaring judge. It distributes great fortune in a way that to the eyes of mere mortals often looks plain capricious. I don’t know whether the tenure process is blind to identity—to lineage or gender or whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone?...
...bombs saw failed attempts last year on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury and opposition leader Sheikh Hasina, and a successful bid on Jan. 27 to kill senior opposition figure Shah Abu Mohammed Shamsul Kibria. Meanwhile, Western intelligence agencies are increasingly concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism. "We were blind on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia," says a South Asia-based Western intelligence official. "We don't want to miss the signs this time around...