Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When President Clinton chose MADELEINE ALBRIGHT over GEORGE MITCHELL and RICHARD HOLBROOKE to be Secretary of State, both men took the disappointment graciously and then devoted themselves to thorny problems--Mitchell in Northern Ireland, Holbrooke in Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus. Now, with U.N. Ambassador BILL RICHARDSON expected to move to the Energy Department, friends of Holbrooke are lobbying Clinton to appoint him to the post. Clinton admires Holbrooke's negotiating skills and his ability to "rattle the china," as a top White House official put it. Also, Holbrooke is close to AL GORE. But Mitchell is also being mentioned, though...
...fled Ireland into self-imposed exile late in 1904, taking with him Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a hotel chambermaid in Dublin when Joyce met her earlier that year. (On hearing that his son had run off with a girl named Barnacle, John Joyce remarked, playing on her last name, "She'll never leave him." And, proving puns can be prophetic, she never...
...Nobel Prize-winning doctor, a noted Irish poet, a media mogul, a former president of Ireland and five professors from Harvard and Yale are this year's nine honorary degree recipients...
Heaney's poetry has taken him from his boyhoodhome in County Derry, Northern Ireland, to Oxfordand most recently to Harvard, where he served asBoylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory untillast year...
Today's Commencement speaker, Robinson was thefirst woman elected president of Ireland. She wasalso the first candidate to be elected presidentfrom small, underdog Labor Party...