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...cheered. That one was preceded by yet another at the University of Pennsylvania; there a young woman has charged that she was gang-raped by five to eight fraternity brothers during a party. Class distinctions need not apply. If one is tempted to construct a hypothesis around shiftless young Irishmen in a poor city neighborhood or the unemployed Portuguese in a depressed fishing port, sociology is obliterated by the party boys from the U. of P., no different in kind or action, just privilege. All subhumans are created equal...
...fame is fleeting. I hope so." One drawback is never being allowed to be alone on a golf course. In Ireland once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when the sun goes down, or the sound at Cypress Point when the wind comes up. "I hear people wishing golfers would be more flamboyant...
...aides urged him to authorize discussions with O'Neill on such proposals. Later that day Reagan cornered the Democratic leader at a meeting with Congressmen in the White House family theater to promise that Stockman would work on a package. Reagan later characterized the huddle as "just two Irishmen plotting...
...central figures in that untidy scenario were Washington's two prideful old Irishmen, Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, and their failure to agree abruptly ended efforts to find a bipartisan alternative to the President's deficit-laden budget for fiscal 1983. The collapse of the talks raised questions for which no one last week had any ready answers...
...excellent opportunity, because in it he touches on--but ultimately skirts--the issues of the American Irish feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that these Irishmen are not running guns just to make money, but he resists any exploration of that rich vein of sentiment and history...