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...that hasn't stopped the British and Irish governments hoping for a breakthrough in the flagging Northern Ireland peace process. Adams denies being an I.R.A. leader, but he wields undeniable influence in the republican movement. Even if he is vote grabbing, his request should get results. "Adams can't unsay this," a senior British official told TIME, "which suggests he's expecting this to succeed rather than fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Their Day Finally Come? | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...make the Sunday morning papers-gave Winston Churchill the chance to scoop the entire British press. Over the radio he electrified the nation with an immediate and resonant declaration: "No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no words that I have spoken about it. But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: What To Do? | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...partly distrusts. Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay. But he has written many poems about going, too-poems that unsay the unspoken contract between him and his Muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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