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...Ireland's President, Mary Robinson, had a private tea with Queen Elizabeth. It's the first time an Irish chief of state has met with a British monarch since the founding of the Republic of Ireland...
...critics have much evidence to make the case that Clinton conducts a feckless foreign policy. As a candidate, Clinton promised he would send a peace envoy to Northern Ireland; renew most-favored-nation trading status for China only if Beijing met tough conditions on human rights; and reverse the practice of sending back all Haitian boat people, including refugees entitled to asylum. He has bent or broken all three vows...
...than in the realms of the former British empire. Artists know that ancestral tongues or patois, even when they survive, could not reach a wide audience, while English puts them on a world stage. When John Millington Synge wanted to portray hatred of England's dominance in his native Ireland, he nonetheless wrote in English rather than Gaelic. When Mustapha Matura depicts his native Trinidad, he uses English -- indeed, he has lived in England since 1961 -- although his plays acknowledge that it is the language of past slavery and present subordination to foreign culture...
...most popular play, which is enjoying a sterling production off- Broadway, Matura uses as his model Synge's finest work, The Playboy of the Western World. The 1921 original was set in County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura...
Sommer's was no small threat. Tourists bring $28 billion a year into the state, and half of Miami's tourists are foreigners. City boosters, who do not want Miami listed with current travel-agency pariahs like Egypt and Northern Ireland, announced improved highway signs and street lighting and faster phasing out of specially marked rental-car license plates that say "easy prey" to thugs. After meeting with Governor Lawton Chiles, Sommer decided to forgo his travel advisory. Two suspects were named in Jensen's murder. Her widower Christian seemed glad of this, but noted that in Germany, normally, "when...