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Over spring break, rugby has planned a trip to Dublin, home to the headquarters of the International Rugby Board; women’s soccer is going to Italy, the land of Del Piero and Buffon; while water polo is making their yearly trip to California for fair-weather games against the sport’s best...
Calixte says, “[Rugby] is doing several Dorm Crew fundraisers, and everyone on the trip has to do a minimum of five hours.” As a destination, Dublin turned out to be the most reasonable option. “It’s actually one of the cheaper alternatives that we looked into—cheaper plane tickets than Spain and places in the Caribbean,” she says. A priority for the team was that all players could go. “We wanted everyone who wanted to go on this trip...
...spend 18 billion minutes on the site each day. "We have 400 million active users and a tiny, tiny staff. We need to find novel ways to handle that kind of crushing amount of activity. It's the burden of being so immensely popular," he says. Richard Allan, the Dublin-based director of policy for Facebook Europe, says an open dialogue between social-networking sites and police is key to stopping abuse. "The Ministry of Justice brought to our attention people who have been abusing the site," he says. "We want to have a regular channel of communication...
...Cardinal Health in August, the prognosis was grim. The nation's second largest drug distributor, Cardinal had lost a third of its value the previous year. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had suspended several of the company's licenses. What's more, the firm, based in Dublin, Ohio, was about to spin off its lucrative medical-tech arm, CareFusion, sparking a further double-digit drop in its stock price. In other words, Barrett deadpans, "we had some challenges...
Four Roman Catholic bishops resigned in December after being named in a report that allegedly documents the Dublin archdiocese's practice of safeguarding priests--at least 170 of them from 1975 to 2004--accused of sexually abusing children. The report, issued by the Irish government in November, also alleges that Irish police repeatedly failed to investigate claims of abuse and conspired to protect Catholic clergy...