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DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own company in Northern Ireland, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, N.J. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance his failing company, which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) Although he did not sell many of his stainless-steel two-seaters, whose doors open upward like gulls' wings, the DeLorean won lasting fame as the time-traveling vehicle...
Connors, a photographer since his days serving as a British soldier in Northern Ireland in the early 80s, opened the presentation yesterday by challenging the term “insurgency,” which members of the media frequently apply to those in Iraq fighting against...
...spent his entire career aspiring to Picassohood. In fact, Bacon maintained that his first encounter with the Spaniard's work, the 1927 show "A Hundred Drawings by Picasso" at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in Paris, made him want to be an artist. "Why don't I try it?" the Ireland-born, England-raised drifter asked himself; within months...
...Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Chris Dodd and a chat with Bush at the annual St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House. Bush listened as the women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fianc Bridgeen Hagans made the trip with the sisters. "Justice will prevail," Bush told them, before repeating one of his favorite post-9/11 lines: "Out of evil can come great good...
Everywhere the women were seen last week--in hotels, taxis, corridors of power--Americans applauded their stand against the I.R.A., whose stature at home and abroad has plummeted in the face of the McCartneys' campaign to have Robert's killers arrested. By breaking the code of silence in Northern Ireland that has long surrounded crimes committed by I.R.A. members, the family has galvanized public opinion against the I.R.A., which for the past 35 years has claimed to be defending the Catholics of Northern Ireland from Protestant gunmen. According to a recent poll, nearly half the supporters of Sinn Fein...