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Clad in his classic cowboy hat and tinted sunglasses, rock star Bono fielded questions from students and discussed a possible future collaboration with Harvard at an event held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government with University President Lawrence H. Summers yesterday. With his charisma and Irish humor, Bono urged students to become involved in global development and in the fight against AIDS. Bono founded an organization Debt, Aids, Trade in Africa in 2002 to raise awareness and instigate change in these particular areas. Summers kicked off the question and answer session asking Bono what the singer thought...
...Sullivan is confident in his type of publicity. “One person will tell 10, 10 will tell fifty—it’s better than 500 people looking at a paper and then throwing it away,” O’ Sullivan says with an Irish brogue. In the next month, he plans to hold a “Grand Opening,” complete with a mayoral visit to cut the ribbon. He explains that financial strain due to building renovations was behind the initial lack of fanfare (literal fanfares aside, since he did commission...
...MUCH JUNK IN THE TRUNK In an Irish study of 50 patients, two-thirds were so overweight that standard needles could not reach the muscle tissue in their rears through...
...Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern reportedly said after a Washington meeting with Rice that she expected U.S. allies to take it on trust that the U.S. does not allow abuses of prisoners. But the administration appears to be distinguishing between abuse - which it denies - and holding ?ghost? detainees in secret prisons abroad, which it has not denied, but only refused to confirm on the record or give details. Indeed, U.S. officials hint that at least some foreign officials have been in the know on movements of CIA aircraft, secret holding facilities or other operations, those governments may be getting...
...Magners Irish Film Festival will run at the HFA and Brattle Theater from Nov. 17 through...