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...beach." Onboard one of Lavelle's buses last week, 40 people listened attentively to the quieter parts of Belfast's history, like the building of the Titanic in a local shipyard. But their necks craned whenever they passed a temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just...
...Lawyer about the effect on the criminal justice system of an episode in a Fort Worth courthouse, where in July of that year, a man angry about his divorce went on a shooting spree, killing two lawyers and wounding two judges and a prosecutor before surrendering at a TV station...
...eyed man is king. In a country intimidated into silence, a signer for the deaf was among the first to speak out. Not that Natalya Dmitruk, 48, planned it that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged, and a crowd of protesters had begun...
...adjacent power transformer, located on Mount Auburn Street, to the highest-bidding and “responsible” developer while maintaining control of certain easements—interests in the property—that would allow it to continue supplying buses and overhead power to the MBTA station...
...Street at 10 a.m., me in my car with the sunroof rolled back and all the windows wide open to let in the dust and the honking and the rumble of men and women on their way to work or nowhere at all. To my right, a SPUR gas station sold a gallon for $2.45; to my left, people waited for cheap bus rides in the relentless sun, and a seafood shop sold steamed crabs, juicy and tasting of the sweetest saltwater...