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...match as a sectarian fetish for clashes ranging from the Battle of the Boyne to Belfast's Falls Road "troubles", those concerns are increasingly remote for the men who don the blue shirts of Rangers and Celtic's green-and-white hoops. What could it possibly mean to Rangers' Georgian striker Shota Arveladze when those cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic's favorite forward, Henrik Larsson, whose mother is Swedish and whose father hails from...
...night, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, arrived to tell Abashidze it was time to go, and they soon left for Moscow. As Abashidze flew into exile, fireworks flared over the regional capital, Batumi, and celebrations erupted on the streets. Chalk up another bloodless victory for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's "rose revolution." Last November, crowds of determined but peaceful demonstrators, protesting against poverty and corruption, convinced Shevardnadze that he had lost control of Georgia, and the former Soviet Foreign Minister stepped down to allow Saakashvili to take over without violence. Saakashvili, 36, a U.S.-trained lawyer...
...MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgian President
...rest of Georgia. But Saakashvili, displaying the same artful combination of diplomacy and populism he used in November, forced Abashidze out without firing a shot. Can he repeat the trick in Georgia's other rebellious regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Abashidze's undoing began May 2 when the Georgian army carried out maneuvers near the Ajaria border. "He was spooked," says one Russian source close to Abashidze, who spoke to him in the days before his ouster. "He thought they were going to invade. It was May Day holidays in Russia and he thought there would be an invasion...
...Harvard Advocate has published from 21 South St. since it completed the construction of the Georgian wood-framed building on May 1, 1956, after leasing the property from the University...