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...July 1, moderate unionist leader David Trimble resigned his post as first minister of the coalition home-rule government of Northern Ireland with the intention of forcing the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to begin disarming (as it had promised to do under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement). Now that the IRA has finally begun disarming, the hope is that Trimble can win today’s election, return to his job and continue leading the peace process...
...Ira A. Jackson ’70, the director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government, Sept. 11 rewrote the book—literally...
...Ira brought to the bank the point of view that you can do well and do good at the same time,” says Fleet Bank chief executive officer Chad Gifford. “Everyone around him was strongly impacted by his beliefs...
...past decade, more firms are desperately trying to hang on to their workers while still cutting labor costs--which account for fully two-thirds of most companies' expenses. "One of the great successes of the U.S. economy has been putting flexibility into the wage structure and compensation plans," says Ira Kay, a compensation consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human-resources consultancy. Variable pay "is a shock absorber." So much so, in fact, that today it could be helping to keep unemployment as much as a full percentage point lower than it would otherwise be--a savings worth 1.4 million...
...Ulster Unionists have stood firm against the desires of terrorists and sought to uphold the tenuous peace agreements of 1998. Trimble’s demands of the IRA are more than reasonable. As he stressed on Saturday, “The promise was made that they would put weapons beyond use. There is a procedure, there is a decommissioning commission, there is legislation, there is a decommissioning scheme...