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...Boston can make or break an election. Stories about these voters, legends in the 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...
Until the counting is done, however, the best barometer of the state of the Irish-American political landscape is still the annual South Boston St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, hosted by the state senator from South Boston since its beginnings in 1957. (According to the Gore campaign, the breakfast tradition began when the then 8-year-old Al Gore mentioned the idea while on a family vacation in Massachusetts.) Though the pols officially get the day off because of the obscure Massachusetts holiday, Evacuation Day, that commemorates the day the British left Boston, it's St. Patrick who gets...
...that's too difficult, consider adding a multivitamin with 400 MCG of folic acid (one of the B vitamins) to your breakfast routine. Taking folic acid decreases the risk of developing colon cancer 75% over 15 years, according to a study of 90,000 nurses published two years ago. And don't forget to exercise. Joggers in particular seem to have a lower rate of colon cancer, but any physical activity is beneficial...
...list of three finalists for the position of chaplain, winnowed from a group of some 50 candidates by a bipartisan committee. Hastert and majority leader Dick Armey outvoted minority leader Richard Gephardt to select the Rev. Charles Wright, a Presbyterian affiliated with the House's influential National Prayer Breakfast. In so doing they passed over the nominating committee's favorite, Father O'Brien, a Catholic priest...
...Candie admits to being as much of a fashion slave as the next girl. Once in a blue moon, though, she suffers a rare relapse into good taste...depending on how many diet pills she's spiked her breakfast espresso with. After temporarily overdosing on Xenical this morning, Candie had a panic attack and sniffed out something rotten in the state of Trendiness...