Elderly people entering my local nursing home from this month could pay accommodation bonds ranging from $2000 to $90,000, depending on their assets. Since the home is only a 40-bed facility, placement may not be possible if no
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People's court jester wins Nobel prizeIn a decision that has angered the Vatican, Dario Fo — Italy's leading contemporary performer/playwright — has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy's choice
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The start of Irish peace negotiations may have marked a crossroads in Irish history, but signs of such a momentous event were hard to find. At Stormont Castle in Belfast, Sinn Féin took its seats at the negotiating table
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It is now certain that Sinn Féin will be included in the peace talks process when it resumes in September. Despite persistent unionist intransigence, the initiative, for the moment, rests with Sinn Féin as it pushes
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For a guy who lived by the slogan —"nothing is true, everything is permitted" — William S. Burroughs managed a long innings. The icon of hipster cynicism died on August 3 at the age of 83. With his death passed the last of the
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BRISBANE — If you were perhaps fearing that the Hanson band wagon would proceed unchecked, worry no more. The Australian Labor Party has left its best to last: one time battlers' hero and local identity Wayne Goss is keen
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The restoration of the IRA cease-fire has again raised hopes of an end to 25 years of war in northern Ireland. The previous cease-fire collapsed because no meaningful negotiations were pursued. For the 18 months of the cessation,
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There was widespread relief throughout northern Ireland as news spread that the Orange Order had cancelled or voluntarily re-routed four highly contentious marches. The annual July 12 celebrations of a 1690 Protestant victory over
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On the afternoon of July 6, after a kind of martial law was imposed on the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, County Armagh, a Protestant Orange Order parade marched silently through the rubble and debris left by the
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Last push for agreements as nationalists brace for siegesWith last-ditch efforts under way to avoid a summer of conflict on a par with last year, nationalists in the north of Ireland are preparing themselves for an onslaught
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Adams ban challengedBRISBANE — Despite the growing support for Sinn Féin in northern Ireland, as registered in recent British elections, Sinn Féin leader and recently elected MP Gerry Adams is not allowed into
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BRISBANE — State education in Queensland has traditionally been one of the lowest funded in Australia. With the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989, some of this disparity was addressed. But Labor veered away from its