Word: processing
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British prime minister Tony Blair is bashing heads together in a desperate bid to save the Northern Ireland peace process. Republicans and loyalists meeting with Blair and Republic of Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern Wednesday in Belfast have until midnight to find their way around an impasse over disarmament. If they fail, so does last year?s Good Friday Agreement, to which both sides in the decades-old conflict signed on. That might bring President Clinton back in on the peace process. Last year the President invited both parties for talks at the White House to prod them into...
...they will defy Monday night?s ban by the British authorities of next Sunday?s annual loyalist march through the Catholic neighborhood of Drumcree, which usually provokes outbreaks of communal violence. Drumcree may yet prove a brutal reminder to Northern Ireland?s politicians of why they needed a peace process in the first place...
...discovered" by the Europeans. Throughout most of its history, the Chinese empire has not been particularly interested in territorial expansion. That the Chinese have done so little with the alleged stolen "secrets" supports this view. Americans would do well to see China as a former world power in the process of re-establishing its international legitimacy. RON WIECKI Madison...
...things that survived this packing process are the things that jar me now. The first time I saw the snow globe collection after it was unpacked was Thanksgiving break. I went down the stairs to retrieve something for my mother. Turning a corner, I found myself presented with an elaborate configuration of plastic domes. My mother had unpacked them. Look, I thought, a souvenir of every place I've ever visited--every amusement park rollercoaster I've ever been on. What is it doing here? It belongs on the second shelf of my bookcase, in my bedroom...
Wilson said that planning the merger had required "good will and a strong stomach for talking and talking and talking," and that the complicated process is still on her mind...