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Look back in anger France has always had its explorers and travelers, but unlike Portugal, Italy or Ireland it doesn't have a tradition of mass migration because it has been such a rich country for so long. What's striking about the new French exodus (and is causing a sometimes-agonized debate back home) is the description these new émigrés give of the France they are leaving behind: a country where it's difficult and sometimes miserable to be ambitious, where landing a stimulating job often depends on connections rather than talent, where bureaucracy is daunting...
Here in Belfast, flags, painted sidewalks and political murals still mark territory claimed by each side in the decades-long dispute between predominantly Protestant unionists, who support the region's union with Great Britain, and mostly Catholic nationalists, who favor unification with the independent Republic of Ireland to the south...
...clad in Celtic gear at a St. Patrick's Day parade. But opinions are shifting. Sinn Fein removed the last major obstacle to collaborative policing in January when it voted to support the PSNI. People still see cops as cops, of course. Draped in the Republic of Ireland's tricolor just after the parade, a young couple gripes about officers clearing out bars right at closing time. "But," says the man, "we wouldn't have known anyone in the police in the old days. Now we have friends who've joined." Some walls are coming down already...
CONTEXT Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, leaders of Northern Ireland's most hard-line Protestant and Roman Catholic parties, sat side by side for the first time ever and agreed to forge a joint platform for government...
USAGE Though powersharing ended civil wars in El Salvador and South Africa, broken pacts caused civil wars in places like Angola, Lebanon and Sierra Leone. In Palestine, Hamas and Fatah are trying to work together, but can the tactic stabilize Iraq? Perhaps. Don't forget: it took Northern Ireland some 40 years from the start of its Troubles to come even this...