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...Neill, for whom I worked half a dozen years, would have called Grandpop a "street-corner guy like myself." Tip took greatest joy in the days when he got a fellow Irishman a deserved promotion at a Cambridge bank by threatening to withdraw the church's charity money. The other day I was on the phone with Brady, and he told me about interrupting a phone call from one of the two Democratic presidential candidates to help save a guy's turnpike job. Same deal...
...Hansard and Irglova ran the backstage gauntlet of photographers and press after their Oscar win, Hansard revealed how he knew times were changing: "Getting a text from Bono is the biggest thing that can happen to an Irishman," he said. "It was one of those moments, getting praise from the high chieftain of our culture...
...Spain and, most astonishingly, Roger Federer of Switzerland. But as the announcer at the Roger's Cup declared Novak Djokovic the champion, he introduced the young man as a native of Croatia, Serbia's less than friendly neighbor. That's like saying a Pakistani is an Indian or an Irishman an Englishman. Serbs all over the world bristled...
Bono knighted; as Irishman, can't be called...
...colonial power to bestow the land on anyone, and certainly not upon Jews from the far reaches of Eastern Europe. Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary in 1917, had served in Ireland as Governor-General during the British occupation. His administration there was known to be stern. Once, an Irishman came to him to complain that the British policies lacked justice. ''Justice?'' Lord Balfour said thoughtfully. ''There is not enough to go around.'' In the Middle East there is a permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much at home. The result...