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What we think will happen does, and what we imagine cannot happen does not. The anxiety of global terrorism remains and the Irish economy and political system remain complex and marginalized. Danny Williams, for all his ingenuity and genuineness, cannot save the world. For all its excitement and all its fanfare, Laird’s book cannot escape its own depressing complacency...
Pistorello is Hayes' third wife; his panic attacks began not long after he and his first wife separated in 1977. Hayes grew up in El Cajon, Calif., as the younger son of parents who had a loving but somewhat volatile marriage. His Irish-Catholic father was a salesman who washed out of semi-pro baseball and drank too much. Hayes says his first panic attack was "not too different from some spaces that are very old, in the sense of watching destructive things happen at home-hide under the bed while Dad throws things." Hayes' father died...
What worries him now is the waiver he needs to get into the Army with a prosthetic leg. Failing that, he might return to Texas, learn some Spanish and try for a border-patrol job. There is no girlfriend in his life. "With this chubby Irish mug?" he asks, noting the 20 lbs. he has put on since his accident. But the ladies do take notice, he admits. "I tell girls I got blown up by an antitank mine in Iraq. It's cheesy, but it works." And he really has drunk out of his prosthetic leg--although...
...tensions are most evident in the complex relationship between the Hispanic immigrants and the German, Italian and Irish families that for a century formed the area's working-class backbone. Those locals were the ones who did the gardening, cleaning and cooking in the Hamptons before Latinos started showing up and working longer for less. And it's the working-class residents, not the wealthy summer-estate owners, who end up not only competing for work with but also living next door to the newcomers. "We have up to 60 single men being stuffed into homes...
...sabbatical, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) had found the way to Dartboard’s heart. Not that they hadn’t already been wooing her with all forms of the great potato—fries to hash browns to baked—but this soothed the Irish blood running through Dartboard’s veins. [Dartboard will not hurt you if you choose to insert your own crude potato famine joke here.] • Dartboard was severely disturbed after trekking up to the Yard to watch Primal Scream last week. No, it was not the massive amounts...