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Denis Donaldson was supposed to be a sign of changing times in Northern Ireland, not a reminder of its brutal, unforgiving past. Last December, when the IRA veteran admitted being a British agent for more than 20 years, his treachery didn't trigger the normal end for informers - a hasty, secret court-martial and a bullet in the back of the head; only five months before, the IRA had renounced violence for good, and so its political arm, Sinn Fein, promised that Donaldson would be left alone...
...Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing mistrust between Protestant unionist leaders and Sinn Fein, efforts to restart the kind of coalition local government that was borne out of the 1998 Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams in the 1970s, is certain to further complicate matters. Unionist leaders like the Rev. Ian Paisley say they have doubts about whether the IRA has genuinely laid down its weapons, and maintained that the killing...
...There is no shortage of suspects for the murder. Although the IRA denied killing Donaldson, former members of the group may have taken it into their own hands to extract revenge on the man they blamed for putting them in jail or sending other comrades to their deaths. Other Republican splinter groups opposed to the peace process certainly had enough motivation to do it. On the other hand, some members of Sinn Fein have implied that the same people who got Donaldson to become spy in the mid 1980s had their own reasons to silence him, since he remained...
Even if moderate drinking does confer health benefits, which it probably does, they are rather modest--certainly not stronger than the effect of small daily doses of aspirin on heart health. Indeed, according to Dr. Ira Goldberg, a preventive-medicine expert at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, the effect may be more in line with the apparent cardioprotective benefit of eating a modest portion of nuts each day. Nuts, of course, aren't as sexy as alcohol...
...reasons, TIPS are best held in an IRA or a 401(k). That's because all gains from TIPS are subject to yearly federal income tax, even though a potentially large portion of the gains can't be collected until the bond matures...