Word: dubliner
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...Larry Mullen who set the dream in motion. He posted a note on the bulletin board of Mount Temple, a public high school in Dublin, asking if there was anyone interested in forming a rock band. That was in 1976, and he was 14. Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine...His parents finally gave him part of a set--made by a toy manufacturer and retailing for $15--at which young Larry happily flailed away until his father suggested he try to get a group together. The Saturday after the school notice went...
...Christians working in its government. Yet Saudi Arabia permits no religion but Islam. And what about Pakistan, home to a snake pit of anti-American extremists, where Westerners have been targeted, abducted and killed? America's first antiterrorist priorities should be Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. JOHN GRADY Dublin...
Though abortion is common, "even last year people were going around talking about the A word," says Evelyn Mahon, a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin. "It's our last great taboo." This debate has forced the issue into more open dialogue. The referendum "means that people have to confront an unpalatable truth," says McManus, health spokeswoman for the Labour Party, which opposes the proposal. "We do have a relatively high level of abortion...
...trader had colluded with others, within the bank or outside. It also suspended five senior executives at Allfirst, though it hasn't accused them of wrongdoing. "Clearly, controls broke down," said Susan Keating, president of the Baltimore unit, "and we don't wholly understand how." Her boss in Dublin, Allied Irish chief executive Michael Buckley, suggested that no controls could hold back a trader determined to commit fraud. "You have a wonderful alarm system in your house," he said, "but someone who has a reasonable amount of skill and a certain amount of knowledge about what happens inside the house...
...transactions, which purported to be done with institutions in the Far East," called the institutions. "Of course, those transactions proved to be fictitious," Crowley says. When Rusnak failed to show up for work on Monday, some officials went to his house: he wasn't there. Keating phoned Buckley in Dublin later that day. By the time the fbi was called in on Tuesday, Keating and Buckley knew they had a world-class scandal on their hands. "This is a heavy blow," Buckley said. "It has damaged our credibility. I would be a liar if I said it hadn...