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...like the Titanic hitting the iceberg, but instead the side of the boat was ripped out by these giant wooden beams." ROBERT CARROLL, a passenger on the Staten Island ferry in New York City that crashed into a pier, killing at least 10 people...
...possible, unionism will be led by a man who has unceasingly fought reform - starting with greater civil rights for Catholics in the 1960s and continuing right through to the present accord - with a potent mix of roars of "No!" and political craft. Unionists are wary, outnumbered on the island of Ireland and detached from the rest of the U.K. by geography. Their insecurity has been fed by continued I.R.A. misadventures, including allegations of gunrunning, spying, abduction and occasionally murder. Life in Northern Ireland has undoubtedly improved since the paramilitary cease-fires were reached nearly 10 years ago, but unionists tend...
...immigrants dying. On Friday, Italian leaders and ordinary citizens alike turned out for a special memorial service in Rome, capping a week of anguish after 13 still-unidentified Somalis were found dead from exposure in the hull of a fishing boat off the coast of Lampedusa, a small island south of Sicily. Accounts from survivors indicated that as many as 60 other Somalis had died on the journey, which began on the Libyan coast on Oct. 3. Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, who estimated that several hundred people have died this year in the waters between North Africa and Sicily, said...
...administration adopt the "One China" policy recognizing Taiwan and China as part of a single political entity. That policy, which remains the cornerstone of U.S.-China relations today, prevents Washington from recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state, and was crafted as a concession to Beijing's view of the island as nothing more than a rebel province. But it was made palatable to Chiang by the fact that he saw himself as the leader not simply of Taiwan, but of all China...
...Chiang's wife, she was Born Soong May-ling in 1898 on the island of Hainan - site of the spy-plane incident that marked the first foreign policy crisis of the Bush administration - Madame Chiang was raised as a Christian and educated at Wellesley College where she graduated in 1917. Her sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the nationalist leader who created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before...