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...consecutive years, the Harvard varsity lightweights have taken silver to Cornell’s gold at the IRA national championships in June. The emerging Cornell-Harvard rivalry gained ground last year, as the two lightweight squads traded No. 1 and No. 2 rankings throughout spring 2007. Then Cornell snagged its second-straight national crown in Camden, N.J., edging Harvard by just over one second in a dramatic grand final.On Saturday, the Crimson again found itself trailing defending champion Cornell, this time in Harvard’s season-opening dual race on Lake Cayuga.The Crimson’s three varsity eights...
...Still, this Easter I came home with a glimmer of hope: at some point, eventually, violence, whether it is the Mafia's or the IRA's, does burn itself out. People get tired of fighting, they settle for less, or put down their guns when they realize it just isn't worth...
...eventually went to jail after being caught parking a car bomb in London, but was released under an amnesty. Did she ever think of going back to war? "No. It's finished." Marion was convinced the IRA rank and file were betrayed by its leadership, and it had all been a waste of lives. She now is married and working as a nurse...
...asked a former IRA soldier, a bomb maker, if Marion was right. "You can't know for sure," he said. "They wrongly called an end to the conflict in 1962." He agreed that no one was satisfied with the power-sharing agreement that technically gives the province's Catholics as much say in government as the Protestants. And one of the biggest problems for Northern Irish Catholics is unemployment; much of the lost generation only knows how to fight...
...sure, the Mafia still runs Sicily. But like the IRA it is an anodyne force. It is moving into white-collar crime - where the real money is and the sentences are lighter...