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...have been a fan of u2 since the start [March 9]. I'm from Ireland, am the same age as Bono, have every one of their recordings on vinyl and CD, and have seen the band live, in Dublin and elsewhere many times. I wanted to thank Josh Tyrangiel for his incisive, honest and, above all, brave review of their new album, No Line on the Horizon. I've listened to an advance copy about 30 times, and it's a poor, disjointed, unmusical record with a few listenable songs. The only good ones sound like Brian Eno tunes with...
Eurovision, which most famously gave the world ABBA, is a much-anticipated annual pop music competition with contestants representing countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the Eurovision finals was a hand puppet named Dustin the Turkey. Russia's own contestant was Dima Bilan, a star so established that a BBC commentator sniped that it was as if Britain had sent Amy Winehouse to the competition (well, if she was allowed to travel). Bilan...
...rules that society says that don’t really make any sense,” said Jen, who added that he recently ate at a Harvard dining hall and printed out fliers at Lamont without a Harvard ID. He also said he has sweet-talked his way to Ireland and back without a passport—although he did say this was not really a good example to follow. Not everyone should break the rules, Jen said, but “it’s okay if a couple...
...authorities are expecting further attacks by dissidents. Could such a campaign of violence destabilize the peace? "The [dissidents] have the advantage of a reasonably proximate objective, which is that they will create tensions that will eventually bring the [Northern Ireland] Assembly down. I do not think they will succeed in that," says Lord Bew. He adds the caveat, "Unless there is a particularly wild reaction from loyalists." Police and security services are bracing against the possibility of reprisals by Protestant paramilitary organizations...
...even walk down the street with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days when it was the Troubles." Too young to remember firsthand the horrors inflicted in the name of a reunited Ireland - or of preserving the Union - she knows the paramilitaries used to mete out summary justice to the kinds of petty criminals and thugs who scare her. Social deprivation has always been the best recruiting sergeant for terrorism...