Word: iras
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...paper at least, the 1998 agreement between the IRA and the British government was what started to put an end to the violent conflict. But at the bottom of it the IRA lost the will to fight...
Spend Easter Sunday in Belfast and you have to wonder what happened to the IRA...
...This year's IRA parade on Easter morning was one of the most anodyne, sentimentalized events I've ever seen, made up mostly of little boys and old men not even bothering to pose as veterans. A half a dozen marchers carried wooden rifles, but the Republican banners were furled - on orders from the IRA's leadership. Armored police Land Rovers were parked inconspicuously on side streets, but they were there to protect the marchers from Protestants rather than keep a watch on them...
...sedation from terminal sedation is that the latter often goes hand-in-hand with cutting off other medications or removing a patient's feeding tubes. On its face, this may sound to many people as automatically hastening a patient's death. But that's not the case, says Dr. Ira Byock, chair of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who has performed terminal sedation for his patients. "This is a practice, when used correctly, that's only done in the final stages of life," Byock says. "At that point, nutrition or antibiotics can usually do nothing to prolong life." Indeed...
...tries to take away the girl. 007 is a convincing Casanova at whatever age, even though he has to pull it off without the accent. Harry’s emotional crisis sets off subsequent emotional conflicts that affect each of the four two-faced leading characters. Writer and director Ira Sachs suggests that married life is a web of emotions that makes people deceive their loved ones. The movie itself is a deception, however; marriage, as any gender studies concentrator could tell you, is a contract that binds together people’s lives in more than one way. Sachs...