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...that now." That's an optimistic view: Guinness, the world's best-selling stout, cannot touch Budweiser or Heineken in sales. Still, how has a 245-year-old brewer kept its edge in the modern world? The brewery at St. James's Gate still suffuses whole neighborhoods in the Irish capital with the rich smell of roasted barley, as it has for generations. The complex's old stone buildings are arranged to let beer flow downhill, so grain is stored at higher elevations while kegs are filled in low-lying areas next to Dublin's River Liffey. And the world...
Upbeat on Downloading Maybe it's apt that Flying Without Wings, from Irish boy band Westlife, last week became the first No. 1 on Britain's new official download chart: digital music is soaring. Apple says its European iTunes shop has sold 5 million tracks since its June...
Johnston, who graduated from Drake University in 1912, never smoked. This churchgoing minister's daughter never touched alcohol either, until she moved in with Julie and Bruce, who introduced her to Baileys Irish Cream, now part of an occasional family happy hour. As for exercise, it was just woven into an active schedule. Well into her 90s, she climbed up and down seven flights of stairs to her old apartment...
...Sinn Fein to keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." This disturbed young man is grossly misinformed. The I.R.A. was not attempting to wipe out the Unionist population of Northern Ireland, but fought a guerrilla war against the British army to attain Irish sovereignty in the North. To compare the conflict in Northern Ireland with the twisted ideologies of the emerging fascist right in the new Russia is nonsense. Mark Eiffe Cork City, Ireland Your article on young Nazis in Russia may surprise a lot of people, but not if you are Jewish...
...another upcoming film, Sally Potter's Yes, she's a woman having an affair that crosses racial and religious lines. And finally, the shyest girl in the class is taking on the fastest-talker's job. She's co-producing a film about a group of working-class Irish women who go to Lourdes, France. Her job has been (partly) to get Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates to sign on. "I've never been on the phone so much," she says. "We're behind on preproduction." With that, two movies to promote and a daughter to care for, what Joan...