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...Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen...
...drama unfolded on New Year's Eve, a day the Kennedys spent celebrating the fact that another bad year had finally ended. The family measures misfortune on its own scale; the terrible years have ended in violent death, the merely bad years are defined by crimes and misdemeanors. Right up until dusk on the very last day of 1997, this looked to be the latter. The worst moments of the year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career. During his years running the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., and helping his Uncle...
...held its debts. But seven days before Christmas, the U.S. changed course, offering immediate aid for the first time, pressing banks to roll over their loans and urging a new Korean leader to seize the moment and change the way his country does business. Finally, on a quiet Christmas Eve, while most Americans were happily distracted, the latest plan was announced. Treasury officials insist the timing was a coincidence...
Edward Treanor, a 31-year-old civil servant, was enjoying a New Year's Eve drink with his new girlfriend at her pub, the Clifton Tavern in Catholic North Belfast. At 9:07 p.m. two masked men, one armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
...I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull out of the talks altogether. Mowlam held a stormy meeting with U.U.P. leaders on New Year's Eve, only hours before Treanor was murdered, but she failed to mollify the unionists...