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...York City. He grew up there (his father was a commodities broker; his mother worked at NBC), attending expensive U.S. schools and working in off-Broadway theaters. He went to Dublin at age 21 to start a cooperative theater group and ended up running the respected Abbey Theatre's second stage. He also wrote a few plays and a column for the Irish Times. In 1988, Kennedy and his wife moved to London, where he cranked out four travel books and a novel, The Dead Heart, about a burned-out U.S. journalist who flees to Australia. Sold to Hollywood...
...Braveheart effect has served this small city 60 km northwest of Edinburgh well. In a mid-19th century swell of patriotism, public donations helped construct a monument in honor of William Wallace, Scotland's fiercest defender. The 67-m Gothic tower stands atop the summit of Abbey Craig, where Wallace is said to have watched the English armies gathering before he chopped his way to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. But the American high school students here on a spring afternoon 710 years later are more interested in the 4-m-tall sandstone statue...
...Penesque invocation of a creeping foreign menace to France. However controversial, the moves have helped "Sarko" win over some Le Pen loyalists. "The true racists will never abandon Le Pen," says Nicolas Rullier, 29, summarizing what he hears at his newsstand beside the sun-washed medieval Benedictine abbey. "But I think lots of regular people here who voted for Le Pen in the past to voice their fears and anger are seriously thinking of voting for Sarkozy this time...
...member of the business association. “Everything helps. We would love to see more bicycles and more places to park those bicycles.” The TOD bond initiative, authorized in 2000 by the Massachusetts legislature, is planning to distribute $5.9 million dollars this year, said Abbey S. Tennis, a program administrator. Last year, in its first round of funding, the program distributed $5 million and will give out a total of $30 million over a decade. The grants will be used for “everything from sidewalk improvements, to the creation of parks, to adding artwork...
...while, I tracked the adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though, in the library for after-school (‘cause Hebrew School didn’t start till four), in between rounds of Truth or Dare, ignoring the screening of The Rescuers Down...