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...profiling two men at opposite ends of the political spectrum. They are Gregory Campbell, 32, a hard-line Protestant member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Martin McGuinness, 35, also an elected deputy, who represents the predominantly Catholic Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A. Home Secretary Leon Brittan informed the BBC and its board of governors that it would be "contrary to the national interest" to show the program. "What is at issue is not the overall balance of the program," he wrote in a letter to Board Chairman Stuart Young, "but the opportunity [for the terrorists...
...Japanese. Has the world forgotten the millions of Chinese who were killed and tortured by the Japanese during their pre-World War II invasion of China? The crimes committed by the Japanese, especially after the fall of Nanking in 1937, will never be forgiven by the Chinese. Leon Li Chicago...
...protests were directed at the governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the target of an I.R.A. bomb last October, had declared a month ago that terrorists should be denied the "oxygen of publicity...
...Alabama-bred Davis has a particular kind of small town in mind--Southern, circa 1930, Edward Hopperesque--and he has assembled some remarkable architects to help realize the vision. Robert A.M. Stern is designing a beachfront hotel. Steven Holl will contribute a retail-office-and-apartment building. And Leon Krier, an influential architectural theorist who lives in London, plans to build a house for himself at Seaside next year--the first building of his quixotic career...
...Staff writer Leon Neyfakh can be reached at neyfakh@fas.harvard.edu...