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...Northern Ireland's 20 years of violence have produced instances of breathtaking brutality, but last week the Irish Republican Army reached a new low when it turned innocent civilians into human bombs. Seven persons were killed and at least 36 injured in synchronized dawn attacks, when two explosive-laden vans blew up at British army checkpoints near Londonderry, in the northwest, and Newry, in the south. Their drivers, one of whom survived, had been forcibly strapped into their seats...
...British authorities said, I.R.A. gunmen held the drivers' families hostage in their homes, while other I.R.A. men followed the vans at close shooting range, veering off just before the explosions. A third human bomb intended to blow up simultaneously at a British army barracks failed to detonate. Said Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke: "It is hard to imagine anything more evil...
...once again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...
Frequent meetings held at OCS offer information on various opportunities open to our students. Would you like to spend a year in Paris, for example? Or next summer in Ireland? Meetings being sponsored by the IEP during the next month can offer you some specific ideas on how to do this. Check out the OCS Newletter for the when's and where...
Heaney's poetry, though, has never really left Ireland, despite the fact that its author has been Boylston professor of rhetoric here for the past six years. Unlike William Butler Yeats, whose far-roving mind soon strayed from the lake isle of Innisfree, Heaney is a stationary poet, taking few side-trips to Cambridge or California, let alone Byzantium. His verses are circumscribed by the ancient parameters of the Celtic-Norse world, borders that almost everyone else has forgotten...