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Cambridge and Somerville are the most recent highlights in a smoke-free-workplaces movement that now includes over 90 Massachusetts cities and towns. California, New York, Delaware, Maine and Connecticut have passed smoke-free workplaces laws, the entirety of Ireland and Norway will go smoke-free in 2004, and the United Nations recently passed a similar rule for its New York City headquarters. A statewide bill in Massachusetts will hopefully protect all workers throughout the Commonwealth later this year...
...feel like getting goose bumps today, borrow your English-concentrating roommate’s copy of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and read W. B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming.” Though written in Ireland in 1922, many observers have pointed out that the poem seems almost explicitly about the second coming of the Bush Administration...
...unconventioal nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
...only way that Westfall can play professional soccer next year is by traveling overseas. She has friends playing in leagues in Germany, France and Ireland, but she has little desire to pursue a similar path...
According to the CPT, this sort of abuse is not unusual. The report doesn't offer a definitive or statistically broad overview of the problem, but it is troubling just the same. The CPT's delegation, including medical staff, spent just eight days in Ireland in May of last year and visited only a handful of police stations, but in that short period of time its investigation turned up evidence of three new cases in which fresh injuries were consistent with detainees' tales of beatings while in custody. The committee - an offshoot of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organization...