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...change of heart is both a symptom and a cause of the hope that has settled over Northern Ireland - precisely because the new peace agreement has been brokered among the hardliners of both sides. The peace process had initially been built around moderate parties - David Trimble's Democratic Unionists and the Social Democratic Labor Party of John Hume - but voters from each community gradually opted to be represented at the negotiating table by tougher parties. A majority of Protestant voters thought Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, which had rejected the earlier process, offered the best to chance to stop Sinn...
...permanent neighbors, who are not fortunate enough to be shielded by the motherly Harvard bubble. It makes car horns louder, brakes less effective, and everyone with a driver’s license forget chapters one through six of the Massachusetts Driver’s Manual. Its final symptom: an inexplicable and hell-bent desire to murder trepidatious pedestrians...
...they’re having a harder time than usual, so they had to decide to be as straightforward as possible.” Not that minorities are the only apathetic ones. All Harvard students easily forget that they were once helpless little prefrosh, too. “A symptom of the population in general is that once students get here it seems a little bit difficult for them to remember how they got here,” said Wang. “Some take it for granted that incoming students will come,” Urzua said. But recruiters...
...Last fall, Open Face ’09, was preemptively diagnosed with genital herpes because it hurt when she peed. Pain during urination is a general symptom for seven types of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), but when Face went in for a second opinion, the new nurse said to wait a week for the test results, and asked how well Face even knew “this...
...Once the cause of death was confirmed, allegations of match-fixing filled the media of much of the cricket world as a number of insiders - former players and coaches - added their voices to suggestions that Woolmer's death was a symptom of corruption at the heart of the game. To be sure, hundreds of millions of dollars are reportedly wagered on cricket matches in South Asia, creating a huge incentive for gambling syndicates to find ways of manipulating outcomes. Although Pakistan's team spokesman Pervez Mir denounced the match-fixing allegations as a distraction from the murder investigation...