Word: northerners
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Many adult offenders, of course, also had rough childhoods. But as Victor Streib, dean of Ohio Northern University's law school and an expert on condemned teens, points out, "The 30-year-old criminal has been out of the house for 10 years. He's had time to form a new life. Almost all teenage offenders are still living at home. The damage done to them emotionally and mentally is not so far removed. The abuse was last night." Counters VOCAL's Shehane: "We have to go beyond rationalizing violent, heinous crime by fluffing...
Gannett News found that five months after the Sugar Cane League took 37 congressional staff members to Florida, Congress voted to maintain sugar price supports. And now that 60 legislators and staff members have gone to the Northern Mariana Islands, known for cheap immigrant labor for the garment industry as well as white sandy beaches, we haven't heard much lately about applying labor laws to any sweatshops that this U.S. commonwealth might harbor...
...BOXER Oscar bait: Daniel Day-Lewis' movie about Northern Ireland opens to rave reviews...
...outbreak of violence between these two extremes of the sectarian struggle comes at an importune--and nervous--time. The Protestant unionist parties participating in the talks were already discontent with the way British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Marjorie Mowlam was handling the negotiations. Says M.P. Ken Maginnis, a senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party: "She has been giving concession after concession to Sinn Fein and the I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull...
...L.V.F. warned, "This is not the end." And the hard men from the Irish National Liberation Army sprayed a Protestant home in rural Newtonbutler with gunfire on New Year's Day. But if the leaders of the mainstream republican and unionist parties continue to stay calm, then 1998 for Northern Ireland might just end up brighter than it began...