Word: irishness
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...show premiered this season on September 21 and follows 14 candidates on different business challenges on their quest to become the apprentice of Bill Cullen, an Irish Donald Trump of sorts. Morgan has survived two eliminations in Cullen’s boardroom...
Other friends from Morgan’s Harvard days consider him the ideal Irish Apprentice. The discipline and competitive spirit Morgan learned from years on Harvard’s crew team may be helping him stay afloat. But friends do point to potential pitfalls. “If there are any weaknesses, it’s if he has any romantic interests on the show that get in the way,” explains George A. Kitovitz...
...early 1970s - at that point they knew less about Belfast than they did about Nairobi - well, I haven't come across a single file that relates intelligence during the Troubles that begin in 1969 to intelligence between the Easter rising in 1916 and the founding of an [Irish] Free State in 1922. Files from that previous period show that intelligence was incredibly confused, and poorly coordinated with local police. What happens in the 1970s? Exactly the same thing. It's a nearly perfect example of the old adage that those who do not understand past mistakes are doomed to repeat...
...Union, and they made common cause with Northern groups who opposed emancipation and the draft. The antidraft riots of 1863 - dramatized in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York - were sparked by opposition to the government's recently passed Conscription Act and, in part, by fears among Irish immigrants that freed slaves would come North and take away jobs...
...That he won despite appearing boxed in and off the pace for much of Sunday's race speaks not just of his dazzling turn of speed but of his ability to maneuver; Irish jockey Mick Kinane threaded the horse through holes in the field that were invisible to other eyes. That Sea the Stars has maintained his form over six grueling months - from the lung-busting sprint in May's 2,000 Guineas to the undulations of Epsom in June - is an even greater achievement...