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...killed and the thousands more it injured battling British rule since 1969. In a passage that sounded more like the words of church leaders than gunslingers, the statement said: "The future will not be found in denying collective failures and mistakes or closing minds and hearts to the plight of those who have been hurt." For most of Northern Ireland's Troubles, the I.R.A. created a hefty share of that hurt. It killed half of the 3,600 people who died - British soldiers, policemen and bystanders in the street - and injured tens of thousands. It has formally backed peace since...
Sarah McConville, a spokesperson for HBSP, denied any connection between Wetlaufer’s plight and Abernathy’s resignation...
...David B.'s "Epileptic" rivals Art Spiegelman's "Maus," for it's tour de force of comix-making. Though "Epileptic" lacks the heightened drama of the holocaust, these two-volume works have many noticeable parallels. Both use the plight of a stricken family member to fuel a story that goes back and forth in time, examining the repercussions on the author. Both have a deeply-informed sense of personal history within the context of world events and culture, making sense of the relationship between the two. Lastly, both use the medium of comics to further the meaning of the work...
...memoir, Confessions of An Ivy League Bookie, details his plight as a 33-year-old struggling freelance writer who enters the numbers-running business in New York...
...Even Arafat's talk of reform, elections by year's end and a new cabinet within a week, has done nothing to ease the plight of ordinary Palestinians. For the residents of the West Bank, Arafat's new freedom of movement contrasts with the Israeli chokehold on their own daily lives, and ability to earn a living - and the blockade on many of those towns is tighter than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging...