Word: settlements
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...plug on the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly and start looking at other arrangements for governing the region. Paisley thinks they're bluffing, in part because the deadline is being dictated by Tony Blair's desire to see a decade of effort on Northern Ireland rewarded with a settlement before his impending retirement. British officials tend to think the 80-year-old unionist is the bluffer, believing he wants to crown his own political career by being Northern Ireland's First Minister...
...accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, for whom he won some $30 million, and a much publicized 1971 suit by service-station operators against Big Oil for the right to sell any brand of gasoline. The operators won that right, and $37 million in damages, in a 1984 settlement...
...little patience for Sunni grievances and has failed to start an oft-promised national reconciliation process. So despite his professed conviction that the security operation is working, chances remain high that it will eventually falter, brought down by the inability of Sunnis and Shi'ites to find a political settlement or the reduction of U.S. forces that is bound to happen...
...suspicions planted then have never fully subsided, and Sunni Arabs still pejoratively label Shi'ites as "Persians" or "Safavis." The Ottomans eventually won control of the Arab territories and cemented Sunni dominance. The British, the next power in the Middle East, did nothing to change the equation. In the settlement after World War I, they handed the newly created states of Iraq and Bahrain, both with Shi'ite majorities, to Sunni monarchs...
...make do with some combination of describing the quotidian (a difficult task for past events that can only be accessed indirectly) and recalling anecdotes, neither of which Munro does compellingly. Throughout the stories of her family’s sea voyage and the early days of their settlement in Canada, the anecdotes seem arbitrary and perfunctory, ending before they begin. There is little sense of place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with...