Word: triumph
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...together for the first time the leaders of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which has waged war to drive the British off the island of Ireland, and the main leaders of their bitter Protestant Unionist opponents. That the talks began at all was a triumph of patience, persistence and cleverness by the governments of Ireland, Britain and the U.S., which are shepherding the broader peace process...
...first two contests, Harvard fell in straight games to UConn and Idaho. The Crimson progressively got better, however, and ended the weekend with the B.C. triumph on Saturday...
Hopefully, the Harvard football team gained a triumph of Biblical proportions with its 26-21 dispatching of Yale...
...lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated two million Britons who lined the route of the cortege in London...
...hope that just the process of debating who should make the TIME 100 will be an interesting way to help us think about a century that saw the transition from an industrial age into an electronic one, the triumph of democratic capitalism over fascism and communism, the horrors of unprecedented World Wars and genocide, the development of movies and television and the Internet, and the magic of new forms of art, music and sport...