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Heaney, a 56-year-old native of Northern Ireland, will collect $1 million along with the recognition that comes with the prize...
...main subject of Heaney's poetry is the religious strife in Northern Ireland. The poet resides in Dublin, usually spending one semester each year teaching at Harvard...
...with a slap of the hand...or India, where the number of women killed by husbands and in-laws eager to collect a second dowry is more than 6,000 a year and growing...or Bangladesh, where a fatwah remains in force against writer Taslima Nasreen...or Ireland, where divorce is still prohibited no matter how violent and life-threatening the marriage...
...University of California regents to eliminateaffirmative actionprograms in admissions and hiring, a move that is expected to influence debate over these programs in other parts of the country. While Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the Clinton Administration to block the action, citing federal funding for the university, Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, called the UC decision "a threat to all Americans." A Time-CNN poll released Friday found 65 percent believe federal affirmative action programs should be changed rather than eliminated, while 47 percent said that the system has been good for the country. California Governor...
...anything different than what we had already done in our experience." From that experience they've drawn some history and autobiography and a little private mediation, set them deep in the spirit, then drawn them out into a jazz pilgrimage. Black spirituals, white hymns, folk tunes from Ireland and French Canada: Jones and Haden give them a singular unity and immediacy. This isn't just great music. It's healing music...