This has allowed Middlebury to be more selective about its student body: The acceptance rate dropped from 26% to 18% over the same period.

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Mr Trimble, who was elected party leader in September 1995 as a hardliner because he repudiated a compromise between Orange marchers and Catholics, must now go back this April 18th to the body which chose him to urge acceptance of a compromise.

ECONOMIST: Why peace is now possible

Now 54, Curtis' body has changed, but she offers Lee advice on acceptance.

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Now, by becoming part of the city-state government in Berlin, which straddles east and west, the party is hoping to win acceptance at last as a normal part of Germany's body politic, rather than be dismissed as a regional oddity, doomed to fade away as east and west grow closer together.

ECONOMIST: Germany's ex-communists