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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the IRA know that the [Irish] Diaspora is tired of the use of violence to achieve ends in Ireland?" he said...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Politicians Discuss Conflict in Northern Ireland | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Atwood criticized recent cease-fire violations by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). "Nobody in Ireland believes anymore in the advantages of war," he said. He added that the IRA is "denying the people's right to self-determination...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Politicians Discuss Conflict in Northern Ireland | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL WE FOLLOW THE SHEEP? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...Ira SenGupta, mother of Devi SenGupta '98, came from Seattle to watch her daughter sing Ghazal and Nazrul Geeti--Urdu and Bengali songs of unfulfilled love...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: 'Ghungroo' Performances Sell Out | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...Bill Cosby been dealt such a terrible blow? How would his TV character Cliff Huxtable explain it all to us?" IRA M. CUTLER Port Chester, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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