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...Peter Robinson announced that he would step aside as First Minister for six weeks, saying he needed "time to deal with family matters" and vowing to clear his name. The appropriately named Mrs. Robinson, a prominent politician in her own right, gave up her seats in the British Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly and checked into a psychiatric hospital. But much more is at stake over the next six weeks than the couple's political careers: the scandal comes at a critical time for the province's shaky power-sharing agreement. For months, the two biggest parties in government, Robinson...
Movies have envisioned the post-apocalypse so often, from the Mad Max films to the current Daybreakers (directed by another set of twins, Peter and Michael Spierig) and The Road, that by now the future can seem passé. But the Detroit-born Hughes brothers have the bona fides to put dreadful war zones on the screen. When they were just 20, they made Menace II Society, a scalding view of gang-plagued Los Angeles. Their next film, Dead Presidents, depicted the scars of Vietnam on a returning vet. After the documentary American Pimp, they sent Johnny Depp in pursuit...
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson temporarily stepped down from his post on Jan. 11 after revelations that his wife Iris--who resigned her seat in the British Parliament two days later--secured $80,000 in loans from property developers to help her 19-year-old lover open a coffee shop. Though Peter Robinson maintains that he was unaware of the transaction, the scandal threatens to derail the province's already shaky Protestant-Catholic coalition government...
...PETER ROBINSON...
...This was easily the toughest tournament of the year in terms of competition,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “The men performed extremely well and I truly thought they were fantastic. They got the job done for us today...