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...northwest of Boston. Kerry moved to Lowell in 1972, three years after he returned to the U.S. from Vietnam. Back then Lowell "looked like Berlin after World War II," former mayor Robert Kennedy says. The mills were boarded up, and houses were burned out. In the overwhelmingly Italian and Irish community, people knew their neighbors and their neighbors' cousins twice removed. And nobody knew Kerry, who had parachuted into Lowell because it was part of the state's Fifth District and the congressional seat was open. Locals would later call the maneuver "Kerrymandering...
...polls. Like most other Democrats, he expected state representative Paul Sheehy to win. Sheehy fit the part. His family had been in Lowell since the 1880s. He was one of seven children of a fire fighter. "Sheehy was the first to go to college. He was your basic Irish success story," Sullivan says...
...campaign heats up, an old story about Kerry's Massachusetts days has been circulating in the national media--but as it turns out, only half of it has been told. It starts with Kerry arriving at a fund-raising event at the Irish American Association in a Boston suburb in 1996. State representative William Reinstein, the class clown of the statehouse, strode over to Kerry and introduced himself as Butchy Cataldo, a former legislator. Kerry, long mocked by local pols for spending too little time in the state, fell headlong into the trap. "Butchy!" he said, slapping Reinstein's back...
...winning results year after year. Man U. was the first to launch a U.S. strategy, teaming with the New York Yankees in a joint marketing deal. It even issues an American Man U. credit card. Another team reaching into the U.S. is Celtic, long the favored club of the Irish and Scottish diaspora. "We've got a million fans in North America," says David McNally, the club's sales director. This summer fans can see the Hoops in action and send their kids to Celtic soccer camps. But Celtic has its eye on an even bigger market: the 20 million...
Tommy is a lot like Leary's previous TV character, a self-destructive Irish-American cop on the ABC sitcom The Job. That show debuted in spring 2001 and then ran smack into the aftermath of 9/11, when TV executives were not exactly eager to air unsentimental treatments of public servants. But FX is a different network, a cable channel trying to distinguish itself with controversial series like The Shield and Nip/Tuck. And it's a different time: now New York City fire fighters have been making the news for infractions that involve drinking and drugs and for suffering budget...