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By the time he died, in a car accident that may have been an act of suicide provoked by Clare's indifference, she'd learned enough from him to step into his job with assurance and fill it with panache.
Civil-rights advocates called for scrutiny of the one-year suspension, but agree that it's OK as long as the abuse that provoked her was gender-neutral.
The crisis in the Northern Ireland peace process, provoked by new outbursts of violence in the province and the Irish Republican Army's reluctance to decommission its weapons, dominated the newspapers of Ireland and Britain Friday.
Protests against the government of the world's fourth most populous nation have provoked lethal gunfire from police.
It was a thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the differences between a real-life community and a virtual community--a meditation provoked by the death of her father, who lived in Williamsburg, Mass., right up the road from me.