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...exactly what happened five years ago in Omagh. Three months after voters across Ireland overwhelmingly endorsed the 1998 Good Friday peace settlement, dissidents slipped a massive car bomb past security forces. The bomb deepened the resolve to make the peace process work, but left lingering worries that the accord hadn't really delivered the hoped-for end to violence. "The further away you are from Omagh, the closer you are to another atrocity," says Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son Aidan was killed in the blast. "They don't need much money, they don't need many people...
...After the crappiest selection in decades at the Cannes Film Festival, I found a terrific season of London shows. One was actually about London: the musical "Our House." I hadn't hoped for much. Since it's a trunk show of songs from the 80s ska group Madness, and since it's about a young man who splits in two to see whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn...
What makes Seabiscuit such a winning celebrity is that even before he died, he couldn't do the talk shows, couldn't write his autobiography and hadn't the faintest idea of how much people loved him. He was just an unhandsome little horse with a tendency to oversleep, overeat, act a little nutsy (difficult childhood) and win races...
Still, two conservative groups sued the FDA, arguing that Congress hadn't given the agency the authority to require such tests, and in October 2002 a federal judge agreed. Last week the Senate, in a unanimous voice vote, moved to reverse that decision, passing a bill allowing the FDA once again to require the tests. The rare show of bipartisan unity on a health-care issue bodes well for the nation's children: the measure now moves to the House carrying emphatic FDA support. --By Eric Roston
...assumed that this young fellow was rich, though I had, and still have, no clear idea how rich. What hadn't occurred to me is how becoming rich, more or less unexpectedly, at the beginning of your adult life must make the world look different. Different than it looks to normal people who have to worry about money all their lives. Different than it looks to the conventionally rich, who get that way over the course of many years. Different, even, than it looks to those who inherit wealth and therefore grow up knowing it's coming. Of course...