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Taking the gun out of Irish politics is harder than it seems. Speaking out for the first time since the Good Friday peace deal, the IRA has rejected demands to scrap its massive stockpile of weaponry. And although the seven-member Army Council wrote in their weekly newspaper Republican News that the accord was a ?significant development,? they added that it ?clearly falls short of presenting a solid basis for a lasting settlement...
When The Cranberries rework "Go Your Own Way," they present a different problem. Dolores O'Riordan fails to sound sincere. She belts out "If I could, I'd give you my world," in bitter strains that sound as though she is still singing about bombs and the IRA...
...While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. ?What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain?s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,? read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons...
...fall for it blindly. When you convert, you must pay tax on the whole bundle. Converting makes sense if you have non-IRA funds to pay the tax and will stay in the same tax bracket or move to a higher one. It helps if you invest in stocks and have 10 years before you'll need the money. If that's you, convert this year while the taxman is running a Roth special: you get to spread the tax liability over four years. But if you're near retirement and lean toward bonds or CDs, converting...
...built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...