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...Bounty. IMPRISONED. MARTHA STEWART, 63, domestic advice guru; sentenced to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators about her sale of ImClone stock; in Alderson, West Virginia. Stewart is appealing the verdict, but last month asked to begin serving her sentence immediately. DIED. PETE McCARTHY, 52, English-Irish travel writer and broadcaster; of cancer. He was best known for his keen observations and deadpan humor in McCarthy's Bar, a meander through Ireland in which he "never pass[ed] a bar that has your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy...
...European Union is often accused of riding roughshod over the wishes of member states. But the latest edition of the E.U. statistical yearbook does away with part of an entire country. On the map on its front cover, Wales has vanished, replaced by nothing but the Irish Sea. Apologetic officials said they meant no offense. No word on whether the Irish Sea gets a seat in the European Parliament...
...annual tuition. Then the World Bank program, called the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative, reduced Uganda's loan payments on the condition that the savings be channeled into health care, agricultural development and free primary education. Over the past few years, debt relief has been touted by everyone from Irish rock star Bono to boxing champ Muhammad Ali as one of the best ways to help lift the world's poorest countries out of poverty. According to the World Bank, even nations in the hipc program - which was extended last week - pay on average more than 12% of their revenues...
...delightful mix of traditional Irish folk music and surging punk rock, the Los Angeles-based Flogging Molly presents some of the best music the Warped Tour lot has to offer. Fronted by Dublin native Dave King, this sextet sports a fiddle, accordion and mandolin. These guys know how to rumble with the best of them, but some of their finest moments come during their sweeping, heartfelt ballads. Their third album, Within a Mile of Home, was released just last month and continues the magnetic style they first displayed on their debut, Swagger. 18+. Tickets $17.75. 7 p.m. Avalon Night Club...
Morgalis played two seasons for Harvard after transferring from Notre Dame in summer 2002, and since he had played just one season and taken a redshirt year with the Fighting Irish, he had used only three years of athletic eligibility. A quick conference with Harvard’s director of compliance Nathan Fry confirmed that Morgalis could easily return...