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...sense, the violence was only another bout of the Northern Ireland Troubles that have continued for more than 30 years. Those few square miles of north Belfast around Holy Cross are notorious for sectarian hatred. A fifth of all the killings in Northern Ireland's conflict have happened here. But the terrified, tear-streaked faces of little girls cowering beside their frightened parents left people profoundly shocked. The sight of grown men and women, their faces distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts...
...about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What are you," screams a counselor in I Like Guys, "a bunch of goddamned faggots who can't make your beds?" Sedaris writes, "I giggled out loud at his stupidity...
HOSPITALIZED. PRINCE CHARLES, 52, heir to the British throne; after falling off a horse during a charity polo match and suffering a brief bout of unconsciousness; in London. The prince regained consciousness quickly, but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. He was released the next...
Person of the Week SPIES LIKE US? Just days before Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit, Beijing experienced a bout of benevolence, releasing three Chinese-born U.S. scholars convicted on charges of spying for Taiwan. Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang were sprung on "medical grounds," while Li Shaomin was expelled...
...What?s the difference between religious and sexual ecstasy, between philosophical and emotional anguish? In the Church of Charles, not much. As Donald Clark observes in his grand sweep of pop, "The Rise and Fall of Popular Music," several Charles songs were blues adaptations of gospel airs: from "Talkin? ?Bout Jesus" to "Talkin? ?Bout You," from "This Little Light of Mine" to "This Little Girl of Mine," from "How Jesus Died" to the Doc Pomus composition "Lonely Avenue." The first number was Charles? most popular tune thus far; the second was covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly...