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Smart, young urbanite Marcy (Janeane Garofalo) works for a Boston senator up for reelection. Having troubles in his campaign, the JFK wannabe assigns young Marcy to go back to the "old country"--Ireland--and trace his hereditary roots. Young Marcy arrives in a small, unheard of Irish town (where men have singing competitions and buses are still gender-segregated) at the peak of a quaint annual ritual: The Match-making Festival. Being single, Marcy is a marked woman; a lamb laid out to the wolves...
LONDON: The Booker Prize, the laurel wreath offered annually to the most worthy tome written in Britain, Ireland or Commonwealth countries, has gone this year to first-time female novelist Arundhati Roy's ?The God of Small Things...
...PATRICIA IRELAND Disses Promise Keepers. NOW more irrelevant than ever...
...switch the word "men" to "women," that statement sounds a lot like what Patricia Ireland has been saying about women's struggle for equality ever since she became president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a group that Promise Keepers so staunchly opposes...
...Ireland noted in response to recent Promise Keepers critiques of NOW, women's bodies are not broken by abuse because they can't make the marriage dream work and exclusive male groups will do little to solve the problem. Women like Ireland who fight for their right to be equal and who often consider themselves feminists are not, as Coakly says. "Just looking for the right man to lead, them"--they are taking the lead...