Good Friday

...unwanted human guest in his home. The 25-year-old man's bid to party with Finn mirrors a similar escapade in Berlin Zoo in Germany on Good Friday this year when Mandy Knobloch, 32, jumped in to swim with the polar bears. She was severely...

In this article: Polar bear, European brown bear, Reuters, Berlin, and Germany

...of each week's games). We asked last week and will ask again. Do you care enough to switch cable providers? Does anybody do that? Good Friday You could plop down and watch college basketball beginning at 9 a.m. and not stop until...

In this article: Rex Hudler, Angels, Trojans, UCLA, Steve Physioc, Ron Santo, DirecTV, Chicago Cubs, Time Warner, and The Tennis Channel

...into the paramilitary organisation. She said he had been on the run from the UVF after being released from prison in 1999 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, having served four years of an 11-year term for a murder bid. She added that...

In this article: Scotland, Antidepressant, Newton Stewart, Dumfries, and Glasgow

...soldiers and a policeman. Those were the first slayings of security force members in Northern Ireland since 1998, the year of the Good Friday peace accord. Experts on paramilitarism warned recently that the splinter groups are receiving...

In this article: Car bomb, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, Democracy, and Militarism

...or private institution. Rev. Luke Watson, another Good Friday speaker, credited Wright for guiding him away from life of crime, which started early with an absent father and a mother addicted to crack. "I was like that thug, the...

In this article: Barack Obama, Trinity, Jesus, Trinity United Church of Christ, South Side, God, and Jeremiah Wright

...most intractable conflicts. Under President Clinton, he negotiated the Good Friday agreement in almost complete secrecy, an achievement that led in 1998 to the IRA ceasefire that set the scene for reconciliation. Mr Mitchell's contacts with...

In this article: George Mitchell, Barack Obama, Israel, Hamas, Richard Holbrooke, Middle East, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and US

Mr Mitchell, a Maronite Catholic whose mother was Lebanese, managed to bring together the leaders of Northern Ireland's religious communities with a mixture of compromise and talks to sign the historic Good Friday agreement in 1998. But...

In this article: Hamas, Gaza, George Mitchell, Cairo, US Navy, Iran, Barack Obama, Tel Aviv, Suez Canal, and Gaza Strip

...as "perverse," "bandits" and "sacrilegious. " In a letter to the viceroy in 1814, he wrote of how he had 300 rebels (to whom he referred as excommunicates) executed to celebrate Good Friday. Iturbide was also criticized for his...

In this article: Agustin Cosme Damian de Iturbide, Mexico, Mexico City, Ferdinand VII, Morelos, Guerrero, and Spain

...dressed in white, dragging a heavy cross. "He has fallen!" This was Josefina Delgado, who came with her husband and two young daughters to witness the Good Friday drama. "See how the soldiers beat him and how his mother cries!" Delgado...

In this article: Jesus, Mexico City, Mary, Suicide, Pontius Pilate, Holy Week, and Easter

...in a linear fashion. It follows the course of Good Friday, a day in which Jason decides to leave work to search for Miss Quentin (Caddy's daughter), who has run away again, seemingly in pursuit of mischief. Here we see most immediately...

In this article: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, and Absalom, Absalom