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Even after he laid down his arms and joined the political process as an elected representative of the Northern Ireland assembly, Martin McGuinness, the longtime face of the Irish Republican Army, never gave up his basic distrust of the troubled province's Protestant police force. A grandfather with a receding hairline and a twinkling eye, he still presented himself as a kind of outlaw, reminiscing about the days he spent "on the run" - hiding from the police that many of Northern Ireland's Catholics viewed as anything but an impartial keeper of the peace...
...McGuinness' transformation from armed radical to potential statesman mirrors the journey his fellow Irish republicans have been on since the IRA declared a cease-fire in 1994. Under the strategic direction of Adams, republicans have turned the IRA, one of the world's toughest terrorist organizations, into a viable political force...
Saturday morning the sun poured in as I checked the room. The bed was at chest height, made up and empty, with clean, fresh sheets over the vinyl mattress. As I turned to leave, I was blocked by a nurse, an older Irish lady with a doleful look on her face. She had taken care of David last night...
...Inspector O's story is told in a series of vivid flashbacks, related to an Irish intelligence officer during a cat-and-mouse encounter in Prague. Their vignettes make a compelling side narrative to the main tale, but the best feature of the book is how it builds, brick by dirty gray brick, a portrait of North Korean society that feels far more real than any debriefing. Church's Pyongyang is caught in the familiar time warp of the North's long-soured revolution: it's a place of deserted roads, decaying buildings and rusting trains that creak...
...Having grown up in Indiana, I've always been a Notre Dame football fan largely because the folks in South Bend at least seem to eschew that culture - to believe still in the student athlete ethos. Sure, the Fighting Irish community is guilty of its own bloated football obsessions, including the program's gilded television contract with NBC and the new 10-year contract for coach Charlie Weis that reportedly approaches or exceeds the $3 million-a-year mark itself, threatening to drag Notre Dame into the pigskin salary...