Word: irishness
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...That would be Bono. The Irish rock star and activist could probably be the next Prime Minister of Canada if he wanted the job. But the post is to be taken by a man who spoke after him at the Liberal Party convention in Toronto last week, Paul Martin. A former Finance Minister who has had the longest dauphinate since Brian Williams was first tagged as the heir to Tom Brokaw, Martin will soon replace Jean Chretien, who has led Canada for a decade. Last week the Liberals elected Martin party boss on Chretien's retirement, and the Prime Ministership...
...year. All that's left of that heyday are 62 slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from €7 to €1 per passenger and provided money for training and marketing. Though few visitors linger long before flying elsewhere or taking the 46-km bus trip...
...MATURIN. Oh, dear. The film has him as nothing more than a doctor and naturalist who happens to be Aubrey's best friend. In fact, he was proudly Irish (with a touch of Catalan), a spy for the British, not handsome and utterly incapable of doing anything shipshape...
...security by making everyone's computers susceptible to the same flaws (you need only note the $2 billion in losses caused by the Sobig worm to understand). Critics point to parallels in the natural world to explain what happens when life becomes too dependent on a single source. "The Irish potato famine killed a country. The boll weevil killed an economy," Geer said. "It is self-evident that the desktops of the world are clones ripe for the slaughter"--unless they are Macs or run the open-source Linux software, both underdogs that hackers are less likely to subvert...
...clothes and view them as nothing more than practical necessities. I like to develop relationships with what I wear. Clothes are what we live in, and when I’m breaking in a new sweater, making it my own, I like to think of the Irish patterns I used to knit when I was younger. I read with fascination about the history of these cable patterns: each one belonged to a particular clan. They wore these patterns not to much to display their family identity—although doubtless that was part of it—but primarily...