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...eager to leave. Especially for students from Westernized countries, a Harvard diploma can offer similar advantages at home as in America. According to Courtney S. Kirshner ’79, president of the Harvard Club of Ireland, the College’s 300 alumni living in Ireland and Northern Ireland “are in the highest tiers of their professions. A Harvard diploma gives immediate recognition of excellence and luster that encourages these elite to return to their home countries and participate in their nation’s life at the highest levels...
...Ulster Talks Stall NORTHERN IRELAND Elections to the devolved government were postponed until May 29 after the British and Irish Prime Ministers failed to get Unionists and Sinn Fein to agree on a system for policing breaches of the 1998 Good Friday accord. London suspended the power-sharing administration last October due to allegations of I.R.A. spying inside the British government. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern postponed the elections, originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold...
...Crimson would have improved its chances for an NCAA at-large bid if it had played more teams in the lower half of the top 30. Harvard faced only three teams [Dartmouth, Northern Michigan and Yale] ranked No. 11-No. 30 in the PWR. In those games, the Crimson went...
...muddy battlefields near the town of Halabja on the Iran-Iraq border, the Kurdish militants of Komal guard the northern flank of the war's principal aggressors, Ansar al Islam. Western and local intelligence services have suggested variously that Ansar is backed by al-Qaeda, Tehran and Baghdad. Whatever the identity of its sponsors, Ansar has proved to be a major headache for the local authorities - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which runs the eastern section of the Kurdish region protected by the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone. For the past year, Ansar fighters have periodically attacked and overrun...
...Kurdish region in northern Iraq, a pivotal staging point for any U.S. invasion, is an unsettling place at the best of times. Five bodies left sprawled on the road by a checkpoint on March 4 has made it even more so. Among the dead was Abullah Qasre, a leading figure in a local militant Islamic group known as Komal, one of the plethora of sectarian factions that riddle Kurdish politics. Komal, however, has come to be particularly important in recent months in light of the bloody war raging between ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan and Islamist groups linked with...