Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided we were going to be more proactive about managing our place in history. This week at the White House we operationalized the Posterity War Room... I haven't seen Ira Magaziner this pumped in years. We will take our case to the media... Mike McCurry is going on A&E Biography. Erskine Bowles will be on the History Channel... My media team is busy putting together spots that will go negative on James Buchanan and Warren Harding... And James Carville has announced that he is making a full-scale assault on the scholars at the Heritage Foundation.... The Posterity...
...Atlantic Foundation and Atlantic Trust, owns neither a house nor a car, and an associate said he always flies coach. As the largest single donor to Sinn Fein, Feeney, 65, who holds dual Irish and American citizenship, maintains that the more than $200,000 he gave the IRA wing was used to fund nonviolent functions. When asked why he decided to give his vast fortune away, Feeney said he had more than enough money, and a terrific amount of luck...
...most market-oriented option, backed by five of the council's 13 members, would direct 40% of the Social Security payroll taxes now collected from each worker and his employer into a new personal security account, similar to the 401(k) and IRA accounts already familiar to most Americans. A second option, backed by two other council members, would allow a lesser degree of individual control. But to hear the howls of protest from union leaders, the seniors lobby and many Democratic lawmakers, you might think the pro-market council members had proposed to hand the keys to the Treasury...
...between Protestants and Catholics for control of Northern Ireland, are at heart a fratricidal family squabble. So maybe a few steely mothers can stanch the blood sport. Some Mother's Son, which Terry George directed from his and Jim Sheridan's script, documents the 1981 hunger strike led by IRA soldier Bobby Sands (John Lynch) and the attempt by mothers of Sands' jailed cohorts to keep their boys from dying. Despite her natural caution, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), an apolitical teacher, is persuaded, by an IRA sympathizer (Fionnula Flanagan) and by loyalty to her own son, to try bringing...
...real Irish trouble is that hardly anyone outside Ireland cares about this endless insurrection. Filmgoers certainly aren't moved in great numbers, as the box-office torpor of Michael Collins indicates. Some Mother's Son is just as unlikely to stir the masses. It doesn't clarify the IRA's collective character: Are its members insurgents? Martyrs? Thugs? Assassins? Instead the movie piggybacks its own little story, about the growing respect of the two women, onto the dreadfully edifying drama of the Sands campaign, including his election to Parliament on his deathbed. There's a power in these scenes that...