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Funny how peace slips away. Two months ago, Northern Ireland seemed on the brink of a final settlement. Then the Irish Republican Army was accused of carrying out a $50 million bank robbery in Belfast. Finally, last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, said further progress would be impossible until the I.R.A. winds up its activities - and the group responded with an angry statement saying Blair and Ahern were "making a mess of the peace process. Do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation." There's no sign the I.R.A. is planning to return...
...from the offices of two electronics manufacturers in Sunnyvale to a hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland. He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one manifestation of a troubling reality: although the cold war is long over, Russia is fielding an army of spooks in the U.S. that...
...Number of new road signs erected across Ireland, following a government decision to post speed limits in kilometers instead of miles...
...first understand why bullying is burgeoning now. That's not easy, since its worst forms happen during the early teen years, just when most youths stop talking to their elders. "Young people can be very secretive," says Gerard McAleavy, an education professor at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. "It's part of their struggle to construct their own identity." Peter Niebling, headmaster of a high school in Hanover, suggests the trend toward smaller families may play a role. "Many children have no siblings and thus don't know how to interact and coexist with their peers in school...
Catholics and protestants in Northern Ireland have seen peace deals fall apart time and again. But when the latest push for a final settlement between nationalists and unionists ran aground last week, it was due to a novel deal breaker: a $50 million bank heist. Ulster's Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, announced Friday that he believed the brazen Dec. 20 robbery from the Belfast headquarters of Northern Bank had been the work of the I.R.A. - a statement that immediately derailed a power-sharing deal that had seemed close to a positive conclusion just weeks earlier. The I.R.A. denied involvement...