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...Almost ten years to the day after he first set about trying to solve the Northern Ireland conflict, British Prime Minister Tony Blair leaned forward in his gallery seat at the moment of truth: In the hushed, wood-panelled chamber of the region's Assembly, onetime enemies formally pledged to run the government together. It was a moment that secured Blair's best hope for a positive legacy, even as he entered the final days of his premiership still dogged by Iraq...
...Ten months ago the Reverend Ian Paisley, the thunderous, 81-year-old Protestant preacher who leads the unionists, said the IRA's political allies, Sinn Fein, would enter government "over our dead bodies." Paisley is now the First Minister of Northern Ireland, heading the new administration alongside former IRA leader Martin McGuinness. These days he reckons the region is "starting upon the road - I emphasize starting - which I believe will take us to lasting peace...
...instead it is the product of the same economic malaise that has led hundreds of thousands of young and talented French citizens to leave France and seek success abroad. France has the slowest?growing large economy in Europe, the fastest-rising public debt in western Europe over the past ten years, and its 22% youth unemployment rate is one of the highest on the continent. Sarkozy was chosen by an electorate looking to cure the malaise. Assuming he has the courage his predecessors have not had to withstand the inevitable protests and demonstrations, the President-elect will liberalize labor markets...
...average AED now costs about $1,500 and some are even available for less than a grand. But buying the equipment isn't the only hurdle, they also need to train someone to use it. "Money is a big problem," says Vanderbilt's Meyer, whose college has since bought ten additional defibrillators...
...Refections 2007,” held in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, was a collaboration between ten Asian organizations on campus. The banquet featured Boston-based band Phil Good and Emerson College journalism professor Paul U. Niwa, who spoke about the difficulties of being an Asian-American man and urged his audience to “grab a samurai sword and chop down the bamboo ceiling...