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It was not a promising start. As Protestants and Catholics alike prepared to cast their ballots for a new assembly in Northern Ireland last week, a streak of violence marred the occasion. David Wright, 61, was teaching a class of ten-year-olds in the border town of Newry when...
The results of the election itself were hardly more comforting. Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., made an impressive showing by picking up five of the assembly's 78 seats. It was the first time Sinn Fein had taken part in an election under its own banner...
The outcome may not matter much, because, in a sense, the assembly was crippled from the start. Ever since British Prime Minister Edward Heath suspended the Protestant-dominated Parliament in Belfast in 1972, London has sought to restore a measure of self-government to the province. Under a plan prepared...
There is an air of the 1950s about the direction in which Harvard's attitudes are evolving, as demonstrated in recent policy shifts on minorities and women. The goal is apparently to assume that everyone is basically white, male, Protestant, and so forth, and to trust problems of Harvard students...
Were God and his inspired scriptural writers unforgivably long-winded? Could they have benefited, like other authors, from a dose of tough-minded, un-worshipful editing? Verily, saith the Reader's Digest, and last week it brought forth the Reader's Digest Bible. Priced at $16.95, it is...