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Still, unionists want more arms disposed of, in order to prove that republicans will no longer use "the Armalite [rifle] and the ballot box" - war alongside politics - to pursue a united Ireland. Danny Morrison, the former Sinn Fein official who coined that phrase, believes that?s what the I.R.A. has just demonstrated. He accuses unionists of pushing too hard. "It was a courageous decision," he said, "but it?s also a huge gamble...
...story was funny, but also obscurely dislocating, ominous. I wondered: Is this an individual quirk? Or is it possible that, without our noticing, the previously literate American middle class, which used to be required to slog at least through a little Dickens or Thoreau or even Vonnegut or Morrison in order to get through high school, has deserted books altogether? Or leap-frogged electronically beyond them? We wake up every few months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading...
...punctuate the landscape. And the gas companies need pipes, roads, compressor stations and power lines to pump the gas out of the ground and into pipelines that run to Denver and Chicago. "It's a very complex mess, basically, and it is changing the landscape dramatically," says Jill Morrison, an organizer with the Powder River Basin Resource Council, an unlikely alliance of ranchers and environmentalists who have joined forces to mitigate the impact of the drilling...
...here to try to block this--we want to cooperate to make it a responsible, sustainable development and stop the 'rape, ruin and run' approach of some of these companies," says Morrison. The council advises ranchers like Dube on their rights and helps them find lawyers and make surface-disturbance agreements with the gas companies...
DIED. JOHN LEE HOOKER, 83, Mississippi Delta bluesman whose impassioned, resonant voice and urgent electric-guitar riffs influenced modern rock 'n' roll and inspired such musicians as Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton; in Los Altos, Calif. The son of a sharecropper and one of 11 children, Hooker ran away from home at 14 to make music in Memphis, Tenn., and didn't stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded...