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...Patrick Teer was a child of war, brought into the world just as the Troubles were transforming his Roman Catholic neighborhood of North Belfast into a battle zone. Yet Teer, now 20, relishes the memories from those turbulent times. He recounts the "fun" of throwing rocks at the British patrols, the drama of street demonstrations and the exhilaration of getting chased by cops. "There was always something going on in those days," he recalls. And unless luck turned sour, kids like Teer survived with their body unscathed. Their futures, however, were more precarious...
...Patrick Teer knows that only too well. Clearly traumatized by the beating, Teer and his family refuse to talk about the motivation behind it. They will not even hint at who might be responsible. But it is widely known by police and others in Belfast that Teer was in the backseat of a stolen car that rammed an auto belonging to an I.R.A. chieftain. For Teer, the arbitrary sentence handed down by an I.R.A. kangaroo court for this careless act of joyriding has resulted in a 5-in. steel pin to hold his shattered left leg together and months...
Punishment beatings threaten the optimistic mood of peace that prevails in Northern Ireland. "The cease-fire means absolutely nothing to me now," says Mary Teer, Patrick's mother. Until the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries give up their vicious beatings, the legacy of the years of violence will continue to haunt Northern Ireland, and the faces of the children of war will continue to show fear...
...Glenn Patrick Wong...
...only ones to work both sides of the fence. A-list fashion editors sometimes work as stylists for a runway show or an advertising campaign. The jobs pay between $2,500 and $3,000 a day. "This is a bad phenomenon, and it's been happening a lot," says Patrick McCarthy, executive editor of Women's Wear Daily, which prohibits the practice. "It pollutes your editorial pages. How can you expect an editor to cover a designer objectively if that editor is also getting a paycheck from...