Word: northerners
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...first glance, the confrontation at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif., last February seemed familiar enough. Inside, two pro-business think tanks, the Brookings Institution and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, treated the Silicon Valley elite to chicken with mango sauce and a speech by a distinguished guest. Outside, environmental activists from the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and the Green Party chanted their disapproval...
JANE FONDA, never famous for her reserve, had to apologize to her adopted state last week after comparing Georgia to a Third World country. Addressing a U.N. function, she said that in northern Georgia, "children are starving to death. People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing." This incensed Governor Zell Miller, who's from those parts. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as clear as it needs to be," he groused. Fonda apologized instantly, saying her remarks were "inaccurate and ill-advised." Peachy...
...earned the Crimson a spot in Northern New England regionals today in Rhode Island...
...infuriated British government, led then by John Major, protested the visa, calling it a naive reward for an unrepentant terrorist. Last month, though, as Adams ate a St. Patrick's Day lunch at the British embassy in Washington with Trimble, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam was saying that "the Americans and President Clinton have been of incalculable help all along the way." What prompted the turnaround...
Polls indicate that more than 70 percent 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...