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...that concluded when ballots were cast yesterday. Other bookmakers reported similar takings. That's much higher than last time Ireland went to the polls, in 2002, when Power says he took wagers worth only about $100,000. "It bears no comparison with the last election," he told TIME.com. "The Irish people have been putting down money like never before...
...pretend that you're working, solemnly patrolling the cultural ramparts, looking for miscreants, saboteurs and other freebooters. Wait long enough and the movies will provide what some people like to call "guilty pleasures," but which are, for the critic, entirely guilt-free. Yes, sometimes it's a bummer - an Irish romance (Once) which looks as if the cameraman and the sound guy were both DUI, or the entire Wilson family (Luke, Owen and Andrew) seeking and finding near-total witlessness in The Wendell Baker Story. But still, there's something to be said for the infinite variety of the movies...
...Poppins - like they pump out comic book films today. But this year, an eclectic slate of movie musicals is challenging the notion that the genre exists so the mommy quadrant can drag the daddy quadrant out on date night. Opening over the next few weeks is Once, a scrappy, Irish guy-meets-girl yarn made for less than $200,000 and featuring Glen Hansard, the lead singer of the Dublin rock band The Frames as a busker/vacuum repairman trying to launch a recording career singing on street corners. In July comes Hairspray, with newcomer Nikki Blonsky, 18, and old-comers...
...Magners only became widely available in Britain last year, and it has already grabbed 13.7% of the cider market. In C&C's fiscal year ending Feb. 28, Magners' U.K. sales soared 262% to $431.2 million. "It took off like a virus," says John O'Reilly, an analyst at Irish brokerage Davy...
...heart stopped three times before the doctors could stabilize him. An irregular flow of oxygen through a tube left him blind and brain damaged. Unable to communicate verbally, the young Paravicini taught himself to play the piano and let the music do the talking. His first song was the Irish folk tune Molly Malone, one of his nanny's favorites, hammered out on a battered electric organ. He was two years...