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...Dirty War, Clean Hands (Cork University Press; 472 pages) is subtitled ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. The first initials belong to the group that uses violence to try to force the separation of the Basque region from Spain; the second stand for the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (Antiterrorist Liberation Groups), which set out to fight ETA's fire with fire via shootings, bombings and kidnappings. And Spanish democracy is the victim of both...
...liked the idea of being somewhat irreverent with this institutional, quasi-industrial, Everyman material," Stearns explains. "And because it's made from cork dust, it has a surprisingly pliable plushness." Along with marketing partner M. Dwight Freeman, he launched Westling Design, offering his durable, handmade creations in bold grid, dot and zigzag patterns that recall art by Mondrian, Kandinsky and Escher. They're not cheap--priced at around $40 per sq. ft., a 6-ft. by 8-ft. area rug costs nearly $2,000. But just think of all those hours you'll save on vacuuming...
...story about the guy who owns the chipper down the streetyou know, Joe and Frank's dad. There's a smell of whiskey in the air and you're sure the bloke staring you in the face is telling you the biggest load of bollocks this side of Cork, but you can't help but listen. Conor McPherson, one of the hottest young playwrights to come out of Ireland in the last decade, has made a career on just this sort of intimate performance, the kind that exists nowhere but in theaters and establishments that serve alcohol. You certainly...
...herring, but it's not really significant either. It simply looks really bad. The civilians may have been sitting at the controls during the emergency blow, but they were not controlling the vessel. Nobody controls a submarine's course during such an exercise. It's like a cork floating to the surface - nobody's driving it; it's driven by its own buoyancy. The issue is who gave the order to begin the surfacing procedure, on the basis that there was no danger on the surface. That was the ship's command, not the civilians. So at least from what...
...acceptance in America. To rephrase Tom Hanks in "A League of Their Own," there's no scratching in cricket. There's also no gum-chewing, no spitting, no national anthem?singing by Roseanne. And unlike that soft padded globe that you call a baseball, the metal-hard leather and cork cricket ball that we use really hurts if you catch it. However, those who play in the cricket field do NOT have those namby-pamby padded gauntlets that baseball fielders use to protect their precious little fingers. I guess cricket is just a real guy game as well...