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    • Reporting the war against Iraq

      Propaganda and war are inseparable, as we have been forcibly reminded during the last nine days of fighting in Iraq. An immense effort goes into planning media access to the fighting by the military authorities involved. p

    • Industrial peace

      In all the gloom caused by rising oil prices and slowing economic activity, the finding that last year was the best for industrial peace in more than three decades is something to be celebrated. p
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    • Considering war in the age of information technology

      Whether they like it or not, the Iraqi people are in the middle of Donald Rumsfeld's big experiment in high strategy, writes Col E.D. Doyle. p

    • Relations between US and enlarged EU will shape this century

      World View/Paul Gillespie: 'Enlargement will change the European Union much more than either its elites or peoples expect," according to the European Commissioner in charge of the process, Mr Gunter Verheugen. 'Enlargement will change the European Union much more than either its elites or peoples expect," according to the European Commissioner in charge of the process, Mr Gunter Verheugen. p

    • Information is free, until you have to pay for it

      After senior civil servants recommended changes in the Freedom of Information Act, The Irish Times put in a request under the existing legislation to learn more about the background to their final decisions. p

    • Special relationship gets a little less special

      It has been clear from the outset that although Britain and the US are bound together by their common interest in appearing to be united on the Iraq issue, they have had somewhat different ideas of how to handle this problem. p

    • Out of the mouths of babes and siblings

      One of our little girls has very big eyes, with eyelashes that curl halfway up to her eyebrows. They are beautiful eyes, but being on the receiving end of one of her penetrating looks is quite unnerving. The other day I was eyeballed. "Mammy, who are the goodies and who are the baddies in this war?" p

    • We always support David when he takes on Goliath

      DRAPIER: Back in 1982, when Maggie Thatcher dispatched her ships to oust the generals from the Falklands, the EU met to discuss what to do. Sanctions were imposed. Ireland went along with the decision. p
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    • An Englishwoman's Diary

      The early years of the last century were a period of intense intellectual and political ferment in Ireland and it was not at all certain that the Irish State would take the narrowly Catholic form it subsequently did. p
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