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The outsider's bitter view of Harvard is nothing new for the people of Boston. It is rooted in an age old tension between what Boston College professor Thomas O'Conner has called the aristocratic, Protestant, Harvard educated Brahmin class, and the Irish, Italian, Catholic immigrant class. The late Thomas...
The peace process made possible by the cease-fire had seemed to be moving forward. Slowly, haltingly, but nevertheless moving. Three weeks ago, former Senator George Mitchell put forth recommendations aimed at getting the I.R.A. and Protestant paramilitaries to turn in their weapons and begin formal peace negotiations. But progress...
As the royal couple celebrated the third anniversary of their separation last week, it must have been painfully clear to even the most common of commoners that Diana wasn't selected for the princess job on the basis of intelligence or loyalty or wit. The qualifications were simple: she had...
A hallmark of this era is that opponents are actually talking to one another for the first time. While in Belfast, Clinton held a reception at which even the leaders of the smaller and more militant Unionist parties, people with strong links to the Protestant paramilitaries, were sharing canapes and...
The new spirit was expressed most eloquently by a Catholic girl, Catherine Hamill, who read Clinton a letter of welcome on Thursday morning. On the night of Sept. 8, 1987, when she was 11 months old, two Protestant gunmen burst through the front door of her Belfast home and shot...