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...search for accommodation, the parties with strong links to the paramilitaries did not abandon their long-range political goals. They only took the bold step of talking to the enemy. "I am a British citizen and will remain one," says Billy Hutchinson, leader and chief negotiator of the Progressive Unionists. "But I have the guts to face Sinn Fein." For his pains he has been called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks...
...engines will have to give their audience ever better reasons to stay tuned. Yahoo and Excite understand this, and almost since their inception have been working to transcend their origins, morphing from simple navigation aids into (warning: buzzword ahead) "portals," mega-Websites that are designed to fulfill a wired citizen's every last online need: browsing, shopping, playing, chatting, whatever. "We began with simple searching," says Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, "and that's still a big hit--our Seinfeld, if you will--but we've also tried to develop a must-see-TV lineup: Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Chat, Yahoo...
...recede from the reaches of public attention, collapsing from lack of support beyond that of the silver-haired concertgoers who routinely fill Boston's Symphony and Jordan Halls. Even world-renowned orchestras from London and Berlin find themselves playing to the same sterling sea--all too often, the modern citizen instinctively sets aside any abiding appreciation for classical music, saving it for the Sunday matinees of his or her golden years. The names Yo-Yo and Itzhak ring bells for many Americans, but few would immediately recognize the virtues of pianist Max Levinson '93 or cellist Matt Haimovitz '96, both...
What has evolved in the Jones case is not vindication of the legal principle that no one is above the law and that the ordinary citizen ought to have a day in court. Instead, it is the fundamental error of judgment shown by the Supreme Court in ruling against the appeal by the President for a delay in the trial until he is out of office. Certainly, the dignity and sovereignty of the office of the President should not have been allowed to be so terribly besmirched. (THE REV.) RALSTON B. NEMBHARD Orlando...
...heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance...