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...words. During the Troubles, the party normally refused to condemn the murder of security force personnel, but in today's post-conflict Northern Ireland, the rules of the game have changed. The party's president Gerry Adams described the attacks as "wrong and counter-productive." "[The perpetrators] want to destroy the progress of recent times and to plunge Ireland back into conflict", he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Returns to Northern Ireland | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...stand naked in all his vacuity before his wife, the woman he loved, the only person he really wished to conquer; he was a conquistador who had won everything, then suddenly found himself confronted with a culture which he did not understand and which he therefore had to destroy.”“The Conqueror” is a pleasant, easy read since it’s broken up into convenient and short chapters. The plot is divided into short scenes in Jonas’ life that attempt to reconstruct and represent the person he has become...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kjaerstead Spins Postmodern Web | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...automakers complain bitterly that bankruptcy would destroy their corporate reputations, turn off customers and be ruinously expensive as well. But as the March deadline gets closer and matters remain unresolved, it increasingly looks like a straightforward if brutal solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...like it or not, Hamas will not go away," wrote the group , which included Israel's chief negotiator at the Camp David talks, former foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami. "Since its victory in democratic elections in 2006, Hamas has sustained its support in Palestinian society despite attempts to destroy it through economic blockades, political boycotts and military incursions... An Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement without Hamas will not be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Aftermath of Gaza, Hamas Becomes Harder to Ignore | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

...then he broke up the huddle and sent his players out to face their toughest opponents in a generation: the biggest economic catastrophe that America has faced since World War II, ongoing wars in several countries and a fiscal time bomb that, unless it is defused, will destroy the American dollar and the American future. The odds are daunting, but now everyone knows the coach believes we can still be champions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Gives Team America a Pep Talk | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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