More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.
At the time of the attacks, few educated Americans born after 1950 had any direct experience of war or persecution or cataclysmic failure.
However in 12 years, when millions of babies born after World War II start turning 65 and become eligible for the program, that ratio will drop sharply.
Today, Southeast Asia is largely free from divisions born of colonialism and the Cold War, and ASEAN is respected, not manipulated, by big powers (most of the time, at least).
Eisenhower himself pinning the Distinguished Service Cross on the Swiss-born spy at the end of World War II.
According to an academic paper published recently, people born soon after the second world war were much more likely to move out of their parents' class than those born in later decades.
Given that the population has increased by one-and-a-half million in the past 25 years, and two-and-a-half million people in this city were born in other countries, some of which are at war with each other, it is a miracle the place is as peaceful as it is.
More than half of Vietnam's 70 million people were born after the war ended on April 30, 1975.
Les was actually born in Europe, after World War II, to a family of Hungarian refugees.
Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, who in 2005 became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since the Falklands War, was born in Grenada before moving to the UK in 1999.
At the same time, we may find the neoclassical design of the National World War II Memorial by the Austrian-born Friedrich St.
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In October 1962, I was three months away from being born, but I did grow up during the second half of the Cold War.
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Aussies and Americans like you have stood together since World War I, the war in which so much of your national character was born -- your incredible ANZAC Spirit.
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But World War II ended before many of our generals were even born, and it's time for the military to understand the age of the wired grunt and adapt accordingly.
Born into World War II, as a young boy in the middle of the Korean War, having to flee the fighting with his family -- just as his home country has risen, so he has risen to leadership on the world stage.
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 to a Syrian immigrant father at the height of the post-War Baby Boom.
Boom time: A sharp increase in births after World War II created the baby boomer generation, born into an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
Idaho sheep ranchers couldn't figure out why, in the decade after World War II, a random batch of their lambs were being born with strange birth defects.
His sympathies, born of his childhood experiences among the peasantry in northern France during the first world war, were always with the underdog, and he did not spare the colonial authorities for their role in Africa's misfortunes.
Born in Dundee, he served in World War II and later studied at Slade School of Fine Art before relocating to Paris.
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It was born in 1922, matured after the second world war, and has all the features of a typical state-owned monopoly of the mid-20th century.
Though he has personal reasons to see "justice" and the war criminals punished, many of the protesters he encountered weren't even born in 1971.
She was born in Afghanistan and her parents, when she is a baby, need to leave because of the war.
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The first was born in 1723 and the last died in 1813 a period of emerging empires, generating enough war, revolution and trade to absorb any number of precarious Scots.
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Those born right after World War II will earn, on average, a 2.4% real rate of return.
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Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the second world war, trying to work out Germany's intentions.
Born in Italy to a circus family of French origin, Mr Caroli was performing in Blackpool when the Second World War broke out and never left the resort.
Born in Kazakhstan, where his Ingush family had been deported after World War II, Gutseriev became the president of state oil company Slavneft, but was dismissed in 2002 before privatization.
You know, a few years after World War II, a child who was born into poverty had a slightly better than 50-50 chance of becoming middle class as an adult.
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