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...countries. Between the late 1980s and today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds of reasons, but realistically it would rarely be the first choice for newly arrived immigrants," says Colette Kavanagh, a principal at Esker Educate Together School in Lucan, a commuter town outside of Dublin...
...same day that Warmus learned her fate, an appellate court in Wisconsin upheld the murder conviction of a former beauty queen who is already serving a life sentence for killing her ex-boyfriend's fiance. Lori Esker, erstwhile Marathon County Dairy Princess, became wildly jealous when she discovered that her prince, a local farmer, had decided to take up permanent residence with on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa Cihaski. Esker strangled Cihaski in September 1989, leaving her body to be found in a parked...
...curtain came down for Warmus and Esker, the legal theater was just beginning for a Merrick, N.Y., teen indicted for attempting to murder -- you guessed it -- her lover's wife. Last week grand jury deliberations wrapped up in the case of the girl the press called Long Island's Lolita. Playing Humbert Humbert was Joseph Buttafuoco, a 38-year-old auto mechanic who had an affair with the young woman. Their relationship apparently soured, and the teenager became "obsessed with revenge," said Daniel Severin, a Nassau County police detective...
...esker and arete? At waterside...
...officially billed as fiction. The basic source is John Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...