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...Problem from Hell won the Pulitzer Prize and made Power, an Irish-born 33-year-old who is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment. Though she worked as an adviser to former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark, Power has a nuanced philosophy that is not an easy fit with either party. She condemns the first Bush Administration for not committing military force to stop Iraqi genocide before and after the first Gulf War. But she opposed the second Gulf War. "My criterion for military...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...
...Kirkus flips over "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories" by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt; May), giving it a starred review. "Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books...
...directives sent from its principal convent in Ireland. During the British raj, Loreto House had admitted very few Indians. By the time I became a student there, the majority of students were Hindu Bengalis, the daughters of Calcutta's elite families, but the majority of teachers continued to be Irish-born nuns. Mother Teresa was no longer affiliated with the Sisters of Loreto, but she came around to our campus every now and then. She had left teaching at another of the Sisters' schools three years before in order to, as she put it, "follow Christ into the slums...
...hard to hate hats but easy to feel no need for them. Milliner Philip Treacy understands this. He knows that the hat, unlike, say, the shirt, is an object less of necessity and more of desire. But so deeply does the Irish-born designer love hats that he wants to inspire everyone to dress headfirst. Thus, when Treacy (pronounced Trace-ee) stages a hat show, as he did last week in New York City, there's nary a beret in sight. Instead, he sent down the runway a variety of head cases that included a Day-Glo blue sea anemone...