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Thu 11 Nov 2002Big Bang needed in peace process to move beyond the impasseIt's back to the old politics of who jumps first, the IRA or the British government, writes Gerry Moriarty, Northern EditorNorthern Ireland is girding itself for a period of Big Bang politics after the British queen took time out from her own troubles yesterday to set in motion another critical stage of the peace process.