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...when he took office in 1976, Patrick Hillery was the youngest President in Irish history--and possibly Ireland's most unifying. A former physician, Hillery headed four government ministries--from Education to Foreign Affairs--before his 14-year tenure as President. Though he initially didn't seek re-election when his first term ended in 1983, voters from multiple parties clamored for him to continue. The educational reforms of the 1960s and his work with what would later become the European Union are Hillery's enduring political legacy, but it was his ability to rise above political mudslinging that most...
...Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors...
...almost all Spring Breakers of the best trip of their lives.DaedalusThe national origin of the menu is ambiguous at every final club’s favorite restaurant/bar, allowing it to serve as a blank screen onto which Eurotrippers of most varieties can project their experiences. Those recently returned from Ireland will undoubtedly catch the numerous references to James Joyce, but will (perhaps thankfully) find little to recognize in the food. Vacationers to Greece can impress their friends by expounding on the classical allusion that gives rise to the restaurant’s name, but the dishes are far too bland...
While some students spent their spring breaks reeling from midterms, Aaron C. Fallon ’11 and Alana C.M. O’Brien ’11 were performing Reels in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the World Championships of Irish Dance. The competition, which took place from March 23 to 30, was a high point for the freshmen, who spent three months training for it. Fallon and O’Brien qualified for the championships after placing first and third, respectively, at the New England Regional Championships, and after placing at the North American National Championships...
...minute walk away from the palatial Islamic Cultural Center where hundreds of Sunnis gather each week for Friday prayers, stands the Ahlul-Beyt Islamic Center, the only Shiite house of worship in Ireland. There, Imam Dr. Saleh and Ahmed Ali flip through Arabic satellite channels and drink tea, recounting tales of fleeing from Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's persecution of Shi'ites. Although Ali, 39, came to Dublin in 1999. At that time, there was peaceful co-existence between Shi'ites and Sunnis. He says one could even crack Shi'ite-Sunni jokes in mixed company. That...