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During their time as co-masters, Andrews and his wife bore witness to the student unrest surrounding Vietnam, racial tension on campus, and the school’s transition to coeducation during the 1970s...
...since the year of 2003 and has reached the 'yellow' alarm level. Should there be no effective measures, it will reach the dangerous 'red' level in five years." ARTICLE appearing in China's Communist Party-run newspaper Study Times last week, seen as a government acknowledgement that increasing social unrest across the country might be tied to a growing gap between rich and poor...
...recent months two significant events in U.S. history have served to highlight the current government’s failure and incapacity to fulfill the role for which they were elected. Continuing civil strife, an increase in suicide bombings, and growing unrest prevail in Iraq. Similarly Hurricane Katrina ruined millions of lives, caused disastrous damage to the economy, and gave virtually all Americans cause for thought about the abilities of the current administration. Journalists quickly jumped on the bandwagon, clambering over one another to report on the human tragedy and loss of life. For weeks columns have lamented the destruction, poor...
...claim the violence broke out because concessions to the I.R.A. had shown that violence pays. "I know there's this thing that violence has been rewarded," Peter Hain, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, told Time. "Actually, what has been rewarded is a switch from violence into democratic politics." The unrest may have delayed the renewal of peace talks and given republicans cover to step up intimidation against the family of Robert McCartney, whose murder by I.R.A. members helped push the group into the July announcement. But the worst damage may have been done to unionism itself. Dawson Bailie, an Orange...
...disarmament declaration to restore a stable local government in early 2006. Mitchell Reiss, a U.S. State Department envoy, came to Belfast this week to help pave the way for a new round of talks, and ended up criticizing Unionist leaders who blamed anyone but the rioters for the unrest. The talks will probably take place anyway, but they may not be enough to revive Protestant interest in the settlement. And so, having spent more than five years bringing the IRA on board, mediators may now find themselves spending more years coaxing the unionists into a deal...