Word: irelands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little. It is ironic about its dumbness in the manner of a show like South Park, which is to say that the irony is often barely discernible, white noise for a generation that likes to laugh unapologetically at poo and look at pictures of breasts without feeling that Patricia Ireland is peeking over anyone's shoulders. In its British form, like competitor FHM, Maxim is what is known as a "laddie" magazine, the periodical of choice for soccer hooligans. Its real secret is that virtually all the articles are terribly short. It's a magazine for people...
...emerging from his studies at the present moment.) He has returned not only with a handsome thesis but also with a thousand oddments and curios he collected along the way--such as remarks by Charles Kingsley, the Cambridge University historian who served as chaplain to Queen Victoria. Kingsley, visiting Ireland in the 1840s, described the Irish as a biological subspecies: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country." It is Phillips' larger thesis that all the English-speaking peoples, including the Kingsleys, have evolved admirably since those times...
DIED. EAMON COLLINS, 45, former I.R.A. intelligence officer and author of the 1997 I.R.A. expose Killing Rage; after being savagely beaten; in Newry, Northern Ireland. Collins, who grew disgusted with the organization, wrote that its violent tactics "isolated us from the people with whom we have most in common...
...president, a popular liberal comedian, and a former senator considered partially responsible for the peace accord in Northern Ireland are among the visiting dignitaries at the John F. Kennedy School of Government this spring...
George Mitchell, the former Maine senator who is President Clinton's appointee to mediate the crises in Northern Ireland, will speak on April...