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Eileen McGinley always voted Sinn Fein. She also told her five children to vote for the republican political party because "we thought they were fighting for justice" in divided Northern Ireland. That belief died along with her 23-year-old son James, who was stabbed through the heart 17 months ago in Londonderry by a member of the Irish Republican Army...
...finds itself under attack. For the first time, the party's supporters are challenging its relationship with the i.r.a. and calling for the group to stop bullying ordinary people. "It's definitely a turning point," says John Kelly, a former i.r.a. member who represented Sinn Fein in the Northern Ireland Assembly. "If [Sinn Fein] is on the path of politics, there's not room on that path to be riding two horses...
When Harvard and The Crimson argue in front of the SJC later this year, they will face a court with close ties to Harvard. Four of the seven justices—Roderick L. Ireland, Judith A. Cowan, Robert J. Cordy, and chief justice Margaret H. Marshall—graduated from Harvard Law School...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Cold, Cold Art There have been many attempts to promote peace in Northern Ireland, but artist Rita Duffy'seffort is unique. Duffy plans to tow an iceberg from Norway to Belfast, the city where the ill-fated Titanic was built and from which it set off on its fatal maiden voyage in 1912. Duffy said she hoped the iceberg would be "a symbol of hope" for the province's divided community. Alas, like so many peace agreements before it, the work is bound to melt down...
...establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. "That's what we're working for, to have a political face appear from the battlefield, to unify the groups, to resist the aggressor and put our views to the people," says a battle commander in the upper tiers of the insurgency who asked to be identified...