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...They did more than stare. Over the next few years Chai, her younger brother, their Chinese father and Irish-American mother were insulted, harassed and ostracized. Their house was shot at from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone on the Range | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...with them. We were just super brand-new and we were at some gigantic stadium and Adam Clayton walked in with a case of Guinness,” says Jenkins with boyish glee. “Isn’t that great? He walked in with a case of Irish beer, he just walked in, and I was just star-struck to see him...I see The Edge—and they really do call him the Edge—and he goes ‘Hello Stephan’ and I go ‘You know my fucking...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FM goes VIP at 3EB | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...unemployment rate from 10% to 4.2%. "How do you do it, Bertie?" asked a jealous and frankly incredulous Tony Blair last October. The British premier, who came to power a month before Ahern and will soon step down, unmourned by many who once supported him, was closeted with his Irish counterpart in Scotland, hammering out the final details of the St. Andrews Agreement on Northern Ireland, when Ahern's press secretary delivered the results of a new opinion poll. It had been taken in the wake of a scandal - the Irish media inevitably dubbed the affair Bertiegate - centered on loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Popularity | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence. Even in shows in which the gender balance is more equal, such as Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the emotional core seems to reside in the females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legally Blonde and Broadway's Girl Appeal | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...your brains... To all the people making the Quad into a beach: put some clothes on! I’m eating my lunch. gfukdsagfiuwegvfiusdgvbiusdgbvuisdtvguisdgvbujxbgvijhdagvuihxbvjcbdjvgjIDB DBNABDJAB CJKABJKJBASCBKAJBCKJACA. Papers. Owl...please tell your naked inductees to go put clothes on. The fence ain’t that high. Cute red head Irish boy in my section, I just wanted to let you know... I really dig thin boys! Got a bone to pick? A friend to ridicule? A crush to notify? A need for a public forum? Holla at FMholler@gmail.com. We’ll publish it all. Word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: holler! | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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