Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland: The war is over. In what TIME London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand calls "an astonishing departure" from the politics of bloodshed that has dominated Northern Ireland for three decades, people here -- with a record turnout of 81.1 percent -- have voted 71 percent in favor of the landmark peace agreement hammered out last month by eight parties and the British and Irish governments...
...aboard." To the south, in the Irish Republic, the endorsement was even stronger. According to preliminary results, 95 percent have voted not only in favor of peace but in an extraordinary gesture enacted a constitutional amendment dropping the Republic's territorial claim on the six counties of Northern Ireland...
...desperate attempt to meet deadline--stop. Sit back for a moment and rethink why you feel enslaved to a bunch of uptight Harvard kids trapped in a Cambridge office thousands of miles away, when Guatemala awaits; ask yourself again why you wanted to go to India or Ireland in the first place. Go for a beer, go to bed, go do anything rather than cutting and pasting your fun away, because you're supposed to be doing this job for you. It is painfully lame not to at least try to enjoy where you're at here...
...Poll numbers for the "no" vote stand at 20 to 25 percent, but more worrying to Blair has been the 20 to 25 percent undecided. "The 'yes' campaign has lacked energy," says Hillenbrand. "The problem is that nobody in Northern Ireland's really enthusiastic about the deal, because there are too many warts on it for both sides." Still, says Hillenbrand, the trusty alternative-too-ghastly-to-contemplate mantra will propel a majority on both sides to say yes -- through gritted teeth...
...year in office, Blair helped engineer a historic peace agreement in Northern Ireland and last week managed to reassert a British presence in Middle East politics by sponsoring a high-profile negotiation in London. The British economy is booming: the pound is up, and unemployment is down. Peace and prosperity. Who could ask for anything more? But just in case someone does, there's Britain's current boom in the arts. Whether it's movies like the The Full Monty, bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls, or designers like Stella McCartney, the hottest thing going these days seems...