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...history of Boston politics since the days of Mayor James Michael Curley, are staples of Irish-American political lore. Such tales are brought up every year at South Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast, where Boston pols get together at the local union hall, eat corned beef and cabbage and roast each other in an equal-opportunity political slugfest...
...started several weeks ago, when Gore issued a press release detailing his plans for celebrating the holiday: "I cosponsored the bill that made corned beef and cabbage a St. Patrick's day feast," said Gore's statement. "I'm responsible for the beginning of this rich tradition...
...Jones University debacle, Bush advisers have been nervous about the Catholic vote. Bush saw an opportunity, though, to make up for his past mistakes. This year, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday during Lent, when Catholics are not allowed to eat meat. The traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner was in jeopardy. Upon hearing that the archdioceses of Boston and Fall River have given special dispensation to their parishioners to partake in the day's feast, Bush pledged to secure a papal blessing for all American Catholics to eat their corned beef this Friday. The Pope was unavailable...
...really pissed about the Irish anymore. Without them there'd be no potato pancakes, no corned beef hash and certainly no Guinness. Everyone's better off for those things, right? Harvard Dining Services surely thinks so from the way they keep serving up the pancakes and corned beef all the time. And now that busing has failed utterly, the Irish have even hung up their old beef with the black community. (Some people over at Tom English's Bar in South Boston might not agree, but that's a story for another...
After deciding on a roast beef sandwich, he relays his story, beginning with a move to New Mexico in 1974. He was trying to get established as a painter but, in the spring of 1978, became involved in a "controversy" about which he declines to give details...