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...Thursday, a couple of Poonsters were treated to special guest musicians Ratatat, who popped by the castle after a stint at Tufts—because hanging out with bitter Ivy rejects was clearly not an option. Saturday, the Castle lit up with Irish good cheer and a Boston College football player, only to be shut down at four in the morning by campus police threatening “the castle is surrounded.” Now there’s something you don’t hear everyday...Friday saw the advent of every Harvard student’s dream?...
...Dame and Dayton on Saturday, and Florida Gulf Coast yesterday. The cancelled games will not be rescheduled. Harvard was looking to improve on an inconsistent opening weekend in the Sunshine State. The team went 2-2 in its first four games, including a 4-0 shutout of the Fighting Irish, whom the Crimson would have played again on St. Patrick’s Day had the inclement weather not nixed the rematch. With the cancellation, the Crimson will have spent nearly two weeks idle when it resumes play on Friday against Ohio State in Bradenton, Fla. That game will begin...
...similar picture across the Irish Sea. A report this year from the Von Hgel Institute in Cambridge suggested that, with the influx of East Europeans, Catholicism could soon be the dominant religion in Britain, which hasn't been the case since, oh, 1550. Construction on the 2012 Olympic sites in London is about to ramp up, providing more jobs. Many Poles in London are "well-qualified workmen with very good experience," says Adam Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who has invested in his own stoneware business in London and who hires mainly Poles. Tesco and Sainsbury's, the British supermarket...
Surprisingly, the new migrants have stabilized local labor markets. Not long ago, Irish builders were constricted by a lack of workers. Wages were spiraling to "ridiculous" levels, says John Dunne, the chief executive of Chambers Ireland, a business lobby group. A wage squeeze is one of the things unions feared most about the influx. Yet they too are benefitting from economic growth. Many of the migrants are signing up for unions because Poland has a long tradition of unionism. A British union, GMB, recently opened a branch in Southampton exclusively for migrant workers...
That message might resonate most with the Irish themselves. For generations, Ireland had to export its underemployed to foreign shores, particularly the U.S. They were not always welcome for the very same reasons that the Poles were feared. Now the Celtic Tiger has reversed history: Ireland's modern diaspora has been returning home to a robust economy infused by immigrant Poles. It's a welcome, and welcoming, place for both...