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...Northern Ireland. President Clinton will be campaigning this month in Northern Ireland to convince voters in this long-trouble region to approve the American-led peace initiative in an upcoming referendum. If successful, the trio of Haiti, Bosnia and now Northern Ireland would go far in solidifying Clinton's place in history as the peace-making President...
...which is bad news for Northern Ireland. The IRA won?t stop Sinn Fein from voting yes on the deal, but part of the fine print calls for paramilitaries to hand in their guns and semtex over the next two years. If they?re not going to do that, Protestant leaders smell a rat. ?You cannot say there?s a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth and ready for action,? fumed Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. Like it or not, a sustained cease-fire is the best the Irish can hope...
...quoted me as saying the government here "understands human capital." To be precise, I was referring to Mali's strong social capital: "something" that makes some societies function or heal themselves better than others. Harvard professor Robert Putnam first developed the idea in the late 1980s, when comparing northern and southern Italy. Social capital is rather like the dark (missing) matter of the universe: we know it's there because we can see its consequences, but it is terribly hard to get hold of and examine under a microscope. The U.N. Development Program in Mali is researching this question with...
After the bike tour, you can continue your Northern Michigan visit at Sleeping Bear Dunes, a few miles to the north. (For lodging, extend your stay at Crystal Mountain or move to the Homestead, another top-of-the-line family facility in nearby Glen Arbor. If you're primarily interested in taking in more performances, you can book a room in the guest lodges at Interlochen. Keep in mind, however, that the fairly rustic accommodations have no air-conditioning or television.) With 30 miles of lakeshore and massive dunes towering hundreds of feet over Lake Michigan, Sleeping Bear...
Polls indicate that more than 70% of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. PETER ROBINSON, deputy leader of IAN PAISLEY'S Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should PRESIDENT CLINTON visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...