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...police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report echoes McCord's allegations, on the basis of his investigation into his son's murder, that some police officers paid and protected terrorist killers, and allowed them to kill repeatedly...
...nationalism, ethnicity, socialism, markets, nepotism, class, and globalization. Why single religion out among all the major forces in history?There is also considerable disagreement over whether religion really is the driving force behind the conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein’s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force...
...journalist while at Harvard. During his senior year he freelanced for The Boston Phoenix, and subsequently moved on to Time, Inc. And after writing for People, LIFE, Quest, and The Village Voice, he made the transition from magazines to newspapers with a job at The Kingston Daily Freeman in Ulster County, New York.He got his start at the Times-Picayune in 1998 when he and his wife, Jane D. Wholey, moved to New Orleans’ French Quarter and he took a job as a night editor for the paper.Horne has published one other book, “Desire Street...
...Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children playing with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that children in Ulster these days sometimes carry real guns ... The backroom bombmakers rarely venture out, leaving the dirty work to carriers, most of them inexperienced teenagers. Six have died in bombing accidents this winter ... A strange mixture of secrecy and foolhardy openness marks the I.R.A. ... While I.R.A. men still execute informers, there...
...that Harvard Extension School students can’t get an equally great education online, outside the traditional classroom, as those who have the opportunity to study on campus. The Harvard Extension School proves that a great American education is possible in more ways than one. JEREMIAH D. BRAUNLIN Ulster Park, N.Y. April...