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...incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of a suspected case on a farm in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, just inside the border with the Republic of Ireland, raised fears that it had seeped beyond British borders; on Friday the Irish government dispatched army troops to the border to prevent animals from crossing the boundary. The threat of the plague bounding onto the Continent whipped other European countries, newly roused...
...smell of whiskey in the air and you're sure the bloke staring you in the face is telling you the biggest load of bollocks this side of Cork, but you can't help but listen. Conor McPherson, one of the hottest young playwrights to come out of Ireland in the last decade, has made a career on just this sort of intimate performance, the kind that exists nowhere but in theaters and establishments that serve alcohol. You certainly won't find it at the local tenplex. His biggest successes, like The Weir, have taken this technique to its extremities...
...bloody life is going. After years of dwelling in pop's dark obscurity, David Gray has at last discovered that the sun doesn't have to go down-and he's still basking in the glow. His album White Ladder, recorded in his living room and self-released in Ireland and Britain in 1999, broke the U.S. Top 100 chart last October and is now pushing the top 30; by the beginning of January, 850,000 copies of the album had been shipped in America. That's on top of the 1.5 million the album has sold in Britain...
...Gray began recording White Ladder in 1998, he had left one record label and been dropped by another in less than five years. His first album, A Century Ends, consisted mainly of Gray strumming and wailing acoustic folk anthems and Celtic ballads; it earned him a small following in Ireland and little else. His two subsequent efforts leaned toward more conventional electric-guitar rock but failed to gain attention. (Lost Songs 95-98, a collection of tracks recorded during his more fallow days, was released this week.) Distraught and teetering on "the shitty end of the rock 'n' roll spectrum...
...recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced measures to admit 63,000 industrial laborers a year. Says British European Parliament Member Graham Watson: "Many states are seeing that in order to close the back door, we need...