Word: northerner
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After listening to women from Colombia, Palestine, South Africa and Northern Ireland speak about contributions to their countries' peacemaking processes, Kennedy rose to offer all of the women words of thanks and admiration...
According to Mary Montague, a delegate from Northern Ireland, women are too often seen simply as mourners in conflict-ridden areas--not as potential peacemakers...
...couple of cats and hopefully a horse if my budget allows it. I want to be somewhere at least an hour outside a major city. I grew up somewhere so remote that I don't want to be that near any highway or city. Up on a lake in Northern Michigan--I don't really care whether it's prairies or mountains, as long as it's not a city....I'm pretty much happy with anything at anytime, so it's hard to say. I guess if I can look back at what I've done since college...
Israeli kicking and screaming notwithstanding, Ehud Barak plans to hand the Golan Heights back to Syria - as a price for a comprehensive peace all along Israel's northern frontier. Israel's parliament Tuesday voted 47 to 31 to back Barak's peace talks with Syria, scheduled to begin in Washington Wednesday, in which the prime minister warned Israel would pay a "heavy territorial price." Following the plateau's capture in 1967, Israeli military doctrine held that it afforded Syrian artillery such a range over Israeli flatlands that handing it back to Damascus was strategic suicide. But warfare has changed considerably...
...people of Northern Ireland now, finally, have the opportunity to chart their own future. Given the current attitude of the new power-sharing government's constituents, that future is increasingly likely to be a peaceful...