Word: journeys
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...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...
...look after us. (Victor, like all N.P.A. fighters, uses a nom de guerre. The platoon's machine gunner is called Comrade Bren.) A handsome man dressed in shin-length shorts and orange flip-flops, Victor first apologizes for his poor English (he speaks it perfectly), then for our circuitous journey: a rebel operation had caused more "bad weather" to the south. "Our people were carrying out a punitive action," says Victor, meaning an assassination by an N.P.A. "sparrow unit" or death squad. The man killed was a farmer, he explains, but his role as a police informer had earned...
...people I had interviewed: three had been brutally beaten, they said, and two were under house arrest; a third-Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote-had disappeared. The four men were in Beijing to petition the central government for help. But their journey proved ill-fated. Police from Qixia intercepted them at the petitions office a few days later and forced them home. Back in Qixia, two were jailed for 38 days. In December 2001, Sun was sentenced to eight years in jail for breaking into a government office and embezzling public funds. He disputes...
...father had never been as far afield as Islamabad, much less the U.S. She had picked up a few words of English, had learned how to use an iPod and was off to see The Lion King. With a shy smile, she said her favorite thing about her journey so far was "New York...
...Actually, Cameron has more in common with a certain British pol than he does with J.F.K. Whether nodding sagely to recovering drug addicts at a rehab center north of Aberdeen or charming Scottish journalists on the serpentine train journey to Edinburgh, the person whom Cameron resembles more than any other is a young Blair. He has the same brow-furrowing desire not only to understand his interlocutors but to empathize with them; the same rootless accent that in Britain indicates an easy start in life (in his case, school days at Eton and a degree from Oxford). And like Blair...