Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Drake serves her time in a federal prison in Dublin, California, at a cost to taxpayers of about $25,000 a year, her children must live with her family 320 miles south in Inglewood. "How are you going to teach her a lesson by sending her to prison for 10 years?" demands her attorney, Robert Campbell III. "What danger is she to society?" Penologists have a ready answer: the danger is that while Drake monopolizes a scarce federal-prison bed, she enables a more dangerous criminal to roam free. To them, Drake's case is a textbook example...
Then there are three new songs written and performed by three Irish musicians with silly names: Gavin Friday, "Man Seezer," and, get this, "Bono." Can you believe it? The biographical sketch says they're all natives of Dublin, and that "Bono" formed a band called U2 with some other people from Dublin back in the '70s. The write-up claims that they have a devoted local following and have put out nearly ten records. I can't believe I've never heard of them! Anyway these songs are pretty good; this guy Bono has a pretty good voice...
...fact, there seems to be a new determination to go beyond damage control and consider fundamental changes in the political status of the province. At the end of last week, Major flew to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. The first order of business for Major was to soothe Irish annoyance over Britain's failure to inform Dublin of the secret contacts with the I.R.A. That was accomplished in what Reynolds called "a strong exchange of views." But despite seven hours of talks, the two leaders were less successful in devising a joint declaration outlining...
...devise a framework that will satisfy the conflicting loyalties in the minority Catholic and majority Protestant communities. The British have said they will not stand in the way of a united Ireland should the majority of the people in the north one day agree to a shift in sovereignty. Dublin has pledged that it will respect the desires of the Protestant majority in the north to maintain its links with the United Kingdom as long as the aspiration for ultimate Irish unity is recognized. The devil will be in the details, and those have yet to be addressed...
...drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind of old fool who mutters "A1" after having his way with Sharon and then boasts around the pub about what a good "ride...