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...came during a speech to the American Bar Association meeting last month in London. Speaking before the gathering of U.S. lawyers, Thatcher said that the media should refrain from giving terrorists publicity. Last week her government pressured the independent British Broadcasting Corp. into canceling a televised documentary on Northern Ireland because it featured an interview with a politician who is allegedly a leader of the Irish Republican Army...
...minute film, titled At the Edge of the Union, is an attempt to depict the divisions in Northern Ireland by profiling two men at opposite ends of the political spectrum. They are Gregory Campbell, 32, a hard-line Protestant member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Martin McGuinness, 35, also an elected deputy, who represents the predominantly Catholic Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A. Home Secretary Leon Brittan informed the BBC and its board of governors that it would be "contrary to the national interest" to show the program. "What is at issue is not the overall balance...
Instead, its most important contribution to the studier is the way time in a foreign country wrenches our minds open. I know this not only from my own junior fall abroad in Ireland; it’s corroborated by my blockmates, friends, and brother who spent time in New Zealand, Prague, Uganda, Glasgow, Paris, Havana, and London. The new insights granted from time abroad aren’t something that everyone needs—but they are a benefit we Ivory-towerites, not just our president, could...
...their country’s government, but at mine. Every weekend, residents of my host city Galway would take a two-hour bus ride to Shannon airport to protest its use as a stopover point for U.S. troops. There was anger, palpable anger, everywhere. And this was in Ireland, where everyone has an American cousin...
...Getting ahead” does not subsume happiness in a culture that appreciates students as people. In Ireland, there was little talk of “climbing ladders.” And such a culture creates a different, more peaceful, less angsty way of life—one nearly all my friends noticed in their various outposts around the world. If every Harvard junior came back bringing a little bit of that lifestyle to our campus, how different it would be. And if Larry Summers had spent a semester abroad as he wished, who knows how Harvard history might...