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...policemen and bystanders in the street - and injured tens of thousands. It has formally backed peace since the 1998 Good Friday agreement, but even so, many players in the peace process are skeptical. The reason: even in peacetime, the I.R.A. is still the formidable force that Britain could not defeat. Most of its weapons remain intact. Its secretive members are staying active by gathering intelligence about potential targets and assaulting alleged criminals in territory it controls. I.R.A. members are also thought to have a hand in the sectarian clashes that have recently gripped Belfast. A year ago, three suspected I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry for All That | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...open about his own political mistakes, saying he should have responded to the attack campaign launched against him late in the 1988 campaign that led to his defeat...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dukakis Praises Public Service, Covers Varied Topics in Discussion | 7/12/2002 | See Source »

Training for the four-mile course of Harvard-Yale put the Crimson in far better condition than it had been prior to its Eastern Sprints defeat...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Crew Wins Three Henley Titles | 7/12/2002 | See Source »

...like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted Bush to push for Arafat's ouster. But Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged Bush to advocate political and economic reforms without demanding Arafat's removal. Powell, says a senior U.S. Middle East expert, suffered a "frustrating" defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush vs. Arafat | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...others, Germany was all about grit. Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team?depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament?hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn?who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games?oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Samba | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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