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...supports violence and who are associated with any group which retained the means of inflicting violence upon others for the attainment of political objectives," party leader Robert McCartney said. The IRA adamantly refuses to meet the Protestant demand that it unconditionally disarm itself. While this sticking point may ruin yet another truce, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is determined to convince pro-British Protestants that holding talks with Sinn Fein is in their best interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now For the Hard Part | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

Only the baseball game offered the kind of drama, excitement and unpredictability that threaten to ruin my attempt to take in three different programming options at the same time. And, true to form it did-I was so busy watching Gore deflect King's inane questions about the race for 2000 that I missed a crucial home run that put the Mets up 3-2 to stay...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Small Screen Summer | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...four days later, Harvard suffered a heartbreaking 12-6 loss to a good UMass team on April 16. Not only did the Crimson possibly ruin its final hope of making the tournament (there still remained a sliver of a chance), but it lost its leading scorer Ferrucci to a torn anterior cruciate ligament for the rest of the season...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: M. Lacrosse Leaves NCAA Hopes Unfulfilled in Frustrating Season | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Gordon must have thought it could be. But the movie does find some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. They plant evidence indicating that he's having an affair on the side. They ruin the restaurant he runs by bringing in a horde of cockroaches the night the New York Times food critic is dining there. They destroy his fallback career as a model by making him break out in blotches from a food allergy. He finally finds himself virtually immobilized in a body cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PLAY MISERY FOR ME | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...Adapting means, as Dershowitz argues, emphasizing Jewish customs without condemning intermarriage. Hepps fears that this policy will lead to the gradual erosion of the Jewish culture. We disagree with her opinion, however, is that Hepps's ideas would, if implemented, contribute to the demise of Jewish culture and would ruin many lives along the way. --John Bronsteen '97 --Scott A. Chesin...

Author: By John Bronsteen and Scott A. Chesin | Title: Hepps Shares Ideals With Racists | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

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