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...under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which laid the foundation for an end to sectarian violence in the British province. And after bulldozers razed most of the former prison buildings last year, the site where Bobby Sands and nine other Republican militants died in a hunger strike in 1981 became little more than an abandoned relic of Northern Ireland's darkest days. (See pictures of how Northern Ireland has transformed itself...
...speculate about what else the group might have done had it not been arrested. But he did say the "central role of rail travel as a collective means of travel that France has made a priority" was also what made it an inviting target for saboteurs seeking "to strike a blow at a well-functioning French society...
...wasn’t always pretty, but we did what we had to do— at least in two phases—to win the game.”Pizzotti came out of the gate hot, finishing a 93-yard march down the field with a 14-yard strike to Richards in the end zone. Kicker Patrick Long missed the extra point wide left.Both teams proved unable to build any further momentum, and the ensuing exchange of punts resulted in Columbia taking advantage of a start at the Crimson 39-yard line. Runs by quarterback M.A. Olawale and tailback...
...life of the loan. They say the incentive should be made available for the next 12 months. "The sentiment in Washington is that we need to get the housing market moving to get the economy back on track," says Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the association. "We need to strike while the iron is hot." (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
...Resistance to the nationalization of pensions is strong, but it may not rise to the fever pitch of this year's running battle between the nation's farmers and Fernández over a hefty tax hike on soy exports. A four-month farm strike ended in a humiliating defeat for Fernández when her initiative was killed by a deciding vote cast in Congress by her own Vice President, Julio Cobos, whose approval rating shot up to 67% in opinion surveys as a result...