Word: northerner
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...human cost seemed high--the blast killed at least two people and injured 39, one critically--the price in terms of demolished hope was even greater. The I.R.A. called a cease-fire in its campaign against British rule on Aug. 31, 1994, and Northern Ireland has enjoyed its first period of real peace since the Troubles began in 1969. Britain, too, has been free of terror. That respite, however may now be over...
...bombing of a London office complex was not a fluke. "The cease-fire in England is definitely over," says Time's Barry Hillenbrand. "If the terror campaign does not work in London, it could be expanded to other cities, and the killing between the Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland could start again. The situation would be back to where it started before the negotiations began." A renewed bombing onslaught is unlikely to force a British capitulation, says Hillenbrand: "The IRA has misread the situation: it can't push the British back to the negotiating table. Still...
...this earth--ethnic and racial groups, religious groups, linguistic groups, nationality groups, gender groups, etc. There is no notion of a viable humanism shaping the interrelations in today's world between contending groups like Azerbaijanis and Armenians, Jews and Palestinians, Tutsi and Hutu, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants (in Northern Ireland), Turks and Kurds, etc., without the reign of Rev. Gomes' goal of Christian forgiveness. And he formulates this awesome ideal deftly in regard to the proposal to memorialize here at Harvard a recognition of the Confederate dead...
...series is filled with intriguing secondary characters, especially Reese's domineering father, who is played with creepy panache by Ray Wise. Savannah is such deliciously bad Southern gothic that it may even help you forget the simply awful Northern Gotham that was Central Park West...
...about Ignatiev's argument, it's that his evidence could support an even stronger conclusion. According to his own scholarship, the Irish did more than simply become white; they adopted an already oppressive caste structure and polarized it along color lines, so that they became even whiter than native northern whites had ever been. There are also structural problems early in the book, such as a preponderance of evidence which obscures the broader arguments. Awkward syntax and glaring grammatical errors like transitive verbs left dangling without objects appear in the early chapters but vanish...