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Special guests included designated heckler Ira Flatow, the host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation; James Knowlton, a returning Ig Nobel winner famous for his studies on penises of the animal kingdom; and a paramilitary force made up of Brownie Troop...
...telephone call from Al Gore to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams ended a 20-year ban on official U.S. contacts with the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. It was the latest benefit of an IRA-declared cease-fire that went into effect September 1. Adams is currently on a whirlwind tour in the U.S. drumming up support for increased economic aid to Northern Ireland...
There have been a few terrorist attacks since the cease-fire, attacks for which the IRA claims no responsibility...
...IRA has completely ceased any military operations in the last month, Adams said...
...defense of the often violent tactics of the IRA, Adams quoted President John F. Kennedy '40 and reminded his audience of the United States' historically stalwart defense of the rights of the individual...