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...Niall O?Dowd, publisher of New York?s Irish Voice and part of an Irish-American network that helped bring about the 1994 I.R.A. cease-fire, said there is "no question" that the unease in America influenced the I.R.A. decision to decommission. "The deal was underway, but the events of Sept. 11 and the Colombian episode accelerated the process," he said. Ronnie Flanagan, the Ulster police chief who has spent decades combating the I.R.A., said the "attitude of the American public, even among those who would be sympathetic to Irish republicanism, changed and changed permanently...
...Useful words, because New York is not only a newly patient town, it is still an anxious town, more anxious than ever - anxious, now, not in its classic Woody Allen way, nutso with neuroses, but anxious in the way of being truly scared. Maureen Dowd told us in the Times last week that Boomers everywhere, still worried about Numero Uno above all else, are now busily loading up on gas masks and all manner of anti-toxin. I don't see it, not in my experience. But I do see anxiety that wasn't there three weeks...
...This week Dowd attacked the President for his "magnificent obsession" with Star Wars. A very literary spasm of woofing: In the first few paragraphs, she cited the obsessions in Proust's "Swann's Way", Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", Nabokov's "Lolita", Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis," and Melville's "Moby Dick" - a way of signaling that all of us on the right side of the Star Wars issue are bright, literate English majors, and that the presidential doofus on the other of the room, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, is, I mean, George W. Bush! Texas! Little...
...turns out that he is darker and more complex than we thought," goes Dowd, wagging her eyebrows and mugging for her peers...
...other day, Dowd went into her ghastly "us-girls-dishing" mode, in which she talked about "guys trapped in their tiresome libidos." Dowd in the us-girls mode sometimes mentions "my girlfriend." I wonder if the Times' op-ed page, which once took itself so seriously, would publish a male columnist who wrote about gals trapped in their tiresome sex drives, and described going shopping with "my boyfriend...