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...Does the Blacks' Cup history make them chokers? You could argue that, but it's a tough call. At Lansdowne Road, Ireland, in '91, they lost in the semis to a Wallabies team ignited by the mercurial David Campese. In Johannesburg in '95, a food-poisoning outbreak wrecked their preparation for the final, which was won by the hosts in extra time. At Twickenham in '99, France lived up to their somewhat spurious reputation for summoning bursts of inspired attack to overwhelm a Blacks team that had been cruising in their semi-final...
...that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 60 years could not fail to sympathize with their struggle for justice, freedom and the application and protection of international law - something that we Westerners take for granted but quietly ignore when it comes to the Palestinians. Sean Clinton, Lisnagry, Ireland...
...Snaking its way from the icy reaches of Tibet to tropical rice paddies near the South China Sea, the Mekong serves as the lifeblood for 70 million people in six different countries. The river's wetlands alone cover an area the size of Ireland, while its fish diversity is rivaled only by the Amazon. But even as many of the world's other majestic rivers - the Nile, the Yangtze, the Mississippi - were efficiently exploited for trade or hydropower, the 3,000-mile (4,800-km) Mekong has until recently largely escaped the imprint of the modern world. During the colonial...
...Sept. 10, 1946, after 17 years as a teacher in Calcutta with the Loreto Sisters (an uncloistered, education-oriented community based in Ireland), Mother Mary Teresa, 36, took the 400-mile (645-km) train trip to Darjeeling. She had been working herself sick, and her superiors ordered her to relax during her annual retreat in the Himalayan foothills. On the ride out, she reported, Christ spoke to her. He called her to abandon teaching and work instead in "the slums" of the city, dealing directly with "the poorest of the poor" - the sick, the dying, beggars and street children. "Come...
...that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 60 years could not fail to sympathize with their struggle for justice, freedom and the application and protection of international law - something that we Westerners take for granted but quietly ignore when it comes to the Palestinians. Sean Clinton, LISNAGRY, IRELAND...