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    • NATO's enlarged role in Europe

      NATO's enlargement from 19 to 26 states this week in Prague underlines the alliance's continuing military and political role in Europe after the end of the Cold War. Its influence extends well beyond this membership base through the Partnership for Peace organisation and the Euro-American Partnership Council, at which 46 states, including Ireland and other neutral states, were represented yesterday. p

    • Miss World

      When Agbani Darego, an 18-year-old Nigerian computer science student, became the first black African woman to win the Miss World title a year ago in Sun City, South Africa, her achievement did not garner significant media attention outside the gossip columns and glamour-driven tabloids. It was, nonetheless, an achievement. p
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    • Dominant brands spawn new form of bullying

      One of my friends told me in disbelieving tones recently that her teenage son wanted her to pay €50 for a two centimetre strip of material. They were looking at two almost identical jackets, one with a well-known logo and one without, and a €50 price difference, writes Breda O'Brien p

    • New Labour may be shedding a little of its glossy image

      Suddenly , Tony Blair is on the back foot. Fabled Middle England is in revolt, and the Conservatives scent opportunity,  writes Frank Millar p

    • Time to acknowledge debt we owe to the SDLP

      During the 1970s and 1980s the IRA was a threat to the people of this part of Ireland, and at least as much to Britain. More than a dozen of our public servants - members of the Garda Síochána and Army - as well as one of our senators, were murdered by that organisation, and on at least two occasions - in 1972 and 1981 - public order in Dublin was threatened by an irruption of IRA supporters from the North, writes Garret Fitzgerald p
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    • An Irishwoman's Diary

      An N-word is stalking our lives. It is not nuclear, nor nitrates, though the effect is poisonous. Everywhere it is sneaking up on us. A worthy Sunday publication asserted that its effect was more powerful than advertising. Be afraid for old-fashioned virtues like sincerity or hard work, or picking friends because you like them, for we are living in the age of - Networking, writes Angela Long. p
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