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...last year has been a period of rapid change and self-understanding, mostly attributable to reflecting on these small, meaningful nuggets. Although I've unearthed many milestones over the last 12 months, this past summer the opportunity arose to halt the roller coaster ride of life to explore where I'd been and question where I was going, instead of letting the scenery pass by in a flurry...
...town in the north. Twenty-eight people were killed and 220 injured in the single worst attack in the 30 years of fighting between Protestants and Catholics. The Real I.R.A. hoped the outrage caused by the bomb would be so great that the peace process would grind to a halt. Instead, the carnage inflicted by the bomb was so indiscriminate and terrible--Catholics and Protestants, women and children, old people and teenagers were among the dead--that all parties to the conflict rushed to isolate and crush the terrorist elements...
...taking away the President's power to issue decrees on the economy, limiting his ability to dismiss and appoint governments and transferring many of those prerogatives to the parliament and the Cabinet. In other words, these were the terms for Yeltsin's surrender. In return, the parliament would halt impeachment proceedings and pass a law giving the President "social guarantees" when he retires...
...dire predictions. Moscow is muttering that Yeltsin might declare a state of emergency, a move that would probably be seen as a retreat from democracy. Some are worried that Yeltsin might form a government of national unity that would take in communists and fascists and bring reform to a halt or put it into reverse...
...gains in one go; officials had originally predicted 3.5 percent growth. "This is outside of our control," whimpered Finance Minister Donald Tsang -- laying the blame at Japan's door even as his own government refused to cut spending. Only one thing could bring the global slide to a temporary halt: The weekend...