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After a June wedding in Newark, N.J., with 300 guests, they plan to travel for the summer to Israel, England, Ireland and California. before moving back to the Boston area to look for work...
Being a twin means never just worrying about yourself—there’s always someone else on your radar screen. But as time has gone on, that aspect of our relationship has eased. Our junior year was spent oceans apart. I spent four months in Ireland, he spent the spring and summer in Scotland. That time taught me to be less and less anxious about my brother and more and more happy in his friendship, confident that he was having fun and we were both growing up. A lot of people at Harvard don’t even...
...given a new mandate; however there have been a few hitches - George Galloway, anyone? Considering the result that the Liberal Democrats received was their best since 1922 under Lloyd George, I believe the case for proportional representation in England - as it has been enacted in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - has become stronger. Joshua Selig Dorset, England Show of Force I was delighted with your piece on the highly anticipated third episode of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith [May 9]. It reminded readers that milestones in entertainment can be just as historic as the political news that swamps...
...vote was widely welcomed in France , where the official workweek is just 35 hours. The U.K. government will try to block Parliament's move at a meeting of E.U. labor ministers next month, and may get support from as many as eight other countries, including Germany and Ireland , who want the E.U. to focus on boosting sluggish economic growth rather than tightening social protection. - By Peter Gumbel...
...land where history is slow to evaporate, the events that unfolded in Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981 still hang thick in the air. i.r.a. prisoners, who were demanding political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first...