Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When President Clinton chose MADELEINE ALBRIGHT over GEORGE MITCHELL and RICHARD HOLBROOKE to be Secretary of State, both men took the disappointment graciously and then devoted themselves to thorny problems--Mitchell in Northern Ireland, Holbrooke in Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus. Now, with U.N. Ambassador BILL RICHARDSON expected to move to the Energy Department, friends of Holbrooke are lobbying Clinton to appoint him to the post. Clinton admires Holbrooke's negotiating skills and his ability to "rattle the china," as a top White House official put it. Also, Holbrooke is close to AL GORE. But Mitchell is also being mentioned, though...
...committed to the peace process in Northern Ireland, but raised a furor by shaking hands with Gerry Adams, the president of the Northern Ireland political party Sinn Fein, which has suspected links to the terrorist Irish Republican Army...
Heaney's poetry has taken him from his boyhoodhome in County Derry, Northern Ireland, to Oxfordand most recently to Harvard, where he served asBoylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory untillast year...
After five easy wins over some of New England's also-rans--Bowdoin, Boston University, Boston College, Wellesley and MIT--at the CWPA New England Northern Regional, Harvard faced another big test, this time against the perennially top-10 UMass Minutewomen on April...
...Both sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some...