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...civil rights for Catholics in the 1960s and continuing right through to the present accord - with a potent mix of roars of "No!" and political craft. Unionists are wary, outnumbered on the island of Ireland and detached from the rest of the U.K. by geography. Their insecurity has been fed by continued I.R.A. misadventures, including allegations of gunrunning, spying, abduction and occasionally murder. Life in Northern Ireland has undoubtedly improved since the paramilitary cease-fires were reached nearly 10 years ago, but unionists tend to discount the diffuse benefits against those memorable hiccups. In Paisley, the skeptics have their champion...
...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...
Poilane has her daily bread Fed-Exed to her here so she doesn’t have to tolerate what she regards as poor American substitutes. Apart from the paper shredder on the floor of her Matthews double, Poilane is not letting business intrude on her freshman year. “The one or two hours you spend procrastinating I spend working,” she says. “It’s nothing demanding at all. It was always my dream to run the company...
Audience members who stayed through the first several manifestos were hand-fed cannoli from Mike’s Pastries, serving as props for a performative manifesto by Anna C. Walters ’05-’06 on “doing things for just no reason.” Walters says that the purpose of manifestos is to combat “constipation” in writing. She adds, “I started writing in the affirmative instead of the negative or ironic or critical...
...Crimson’s lone goal in the third quarter came from Offsay with 3:31 left after he was fed the ball by freshman Mike Garcia...