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...changed already. The petrol bombs and bullets the walls used to hold back have stopped flying. Guards at the gate no longer keep their guns conspicuously unholstered. In fact, so much has changed in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick - who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy - explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable: good prospects, good work, good pay. "Everyone seems to have us pigeonholed as sectarian, not police, but soldiers," says Fitzpatrick, 27. "That...
...step forward on March 26, when leaders of the long-feuding Democratic Unionist Party and the nationalist Sinn Fein party agreed to form a power-sharing government on May 8. At the center of the PSNI's makeover is a 2000 law: 50% of all new recruits must, like Fitzpatrick, have Roman Catholic roots. Today 20% of officers are Catholic, more than twice the share 10 years ago. By 2010, the force is on track to be 30% Catholic...
Despite the best cross-community relations in decades and increasing political cooperation, it's still hard to get officers to talk about their own place in this long-divided land. When off duty, says Fitzpatrick, "I don't tell people I work for the police. I tell them I'm in court services." Simpson, like many officers, declines to say whether his background is Catholic or Protestant. When he talks to boys playing football in the street, they ask which team he roots for. Support for the Glasgow teams Rangers or Celtic is a sectarian marker. Most Rangers fans...
...Kacyvenski and Fitzpatrick, things have come together in St. Louis, at least for the rest of this year. And on New Year’s Eve, things will come together for all three of the Crimson’s pro footballers, when Fitzpatrick and Kacyvenski’s Rams travel to Minnesota to play Birk and the Vikings in both teams’ regular-season finale...
...What could be a better way to bring in the New Year than watching a game with three Harvard guys on the field at one time?” Fitzpatrick says. “He’s meant a great deal to all three of us, and I think it would be a special thing...