Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...show with the catch-all title of Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings, featuring the work of area artists over the last 25 years and curated by Carl Belz, director emeritus of the museum. Belz had a large part in committing the Rose to its program of displaying local work, especially through the annual exhibitions of Boston's artists. Visual Memoirs surveys the more than 400 works in the Rose's collection acquired during this quarter century of Belz's directorship...
Under the Good Friday agreement, power over Northern Ireland was given to a local cabinet including both unionists and nationalists. The establishment of this government was a major accomplishment, as few expected ever to see Gerry Adams, the leader of IRA-allied Sinn Fein, sitting at the same table with David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionists...
...Good Friday agreement was contingent on the expectation that the IRA would be willing to begin disarming once the local government was in place in Northern Ireland. Indeed, on Nov. 17, 1999, the IRA said that it would be willing to discuss disarmament once a power-sharing government was created. That government was instituted on Dec. 1, ending 27 years of direct British rule...
...must immediately announce its intention to disarm by May, if local government is reinstated, as the original accord envisioned. It is in the IRA's best interest to try to salvage the peace process now. The British have shown that they will be reasonable, and the unionists have demonstrated that they are dedicated to a peaceful future for Northern Ireland. The Irish citizens, north and south, wish for peace, as evidenced by their votes in support of the Good Friday pact. If the IRA continues to be the primary obstacle to that peace, its domestic support will wither away...
...This bar has always been a place of diversity, a melting pot between Harvard and the local working class, with hardly any trouble," said Mike Kelly, who has been going to the bar for the past 25 years. "To let it go would be to effectively kill a small part of Harvard Square...