Word: mainstream
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After Treanor's murder, rumors flew around Belfast that one of the mainstream Protestant paramilitary groups may have provided assistance to the L.V.F. in pulling off its New Year's Eve hit. But leaders of the parties with close links to the Protestant gunmen claim the L.V.F. is acting on its own. As annoyed with Mowlam as they are, these leaders want to isolate the extremists...
...province. In a statement claiming responsibility for the murder of Treanor, the L.V.F. warned, "This is not the end." And the hard men from the Irish National Liberation Army sprayed a Protestant home in rural Newtonbutler with gunfire on New Year's Day. But if the leaders of the mainstream republican and unionist parties continue to stay calm, then 1998 for Northern Ireland might just end up brighter than it began...
...Journal credited Princeton, the Ivy institution sharing the last place position in the quest for more black, female faculty members, with having "achieved far more success than Harvard in integrating its mainstream departments," pointing out that there are two black professors of math in tenure-track positions, while there are none at Harvard...
...retaliation by both sides may lie ahead, ?the fighting by extremists at the fringes is not a hindrance to the peace process.? The recent attacks were carried out by anti-peace breakaway factions of the Republican and Unionist movements. ?The real question is whether the center can hold. The mainstream Republicans and Unionists have said they won?t be drawn into new violence. But the big question, since even before the recent killings, is whether the mainstream Unionists plan to stay at the talks...
...Southern California, he started writing Jekyll & Hyde with a classmate; an album of songs from the show was released in 1990, and shortly thereafter it was staged at Houston's Alley Theatre. The musical then sat unproduced for several years while its songs worked their way into the pop mainstream: This Is the Moment has turned up at everything from the Winter Olympics to President Clinton's Inaugural. Remounted in 1995, the show became a cult hit around the country before landing on Broadway last spring...