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...could have said, ‘Look, I’m one of you, blue-eyed with some Irish blood in me and I went to Harvard. This [prejudice] just can’t go on,” Cullen said...
There’s a problem with the carbonation, though, and some of the flavors aren’t coming in. “It’s a little dry...an Irish Red is supposed to have some sweetness,” Meyers says. Three Cowboys and an Indian might have been better if it were bottled differently. It’s unfiltered, like a lot of microbrews, but the judges suggest to next time fill the bottles all the way up. Sullivan’s bottles were a quarter from...
...billion-a-year business, and it has long been a moneymaker at Notre Dame. Last year the football program generated $32 million in revenues and profits of $21 million. In the past month, some 80,000 RETURN TO GLORY T shirts were sold on campus. Should Willingham take the Irish to one of the big bowl games, which seems likely, the team will score another $11 million to $15 million in profits from ticket sales and television rights. The folks in the fund-raising department are cheering too. "We're up about 3% when we expected to be down," says...
After beating Florida State, the 8-0 Irish are in the hunt for a place in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 3 to determine the national champion. "This season is magical because nobody expected it. He's done a spectacular job," says NBC's Schanzer. And fans can't wait for next year. That's because Willingham's success has made Notre Dame a top choice for the nation's schoolboy stars--even if Willingham was never top choice for Notre Dame. --With reporting by David Thigpen/South Bend
DIED. RICHARD HARRIS, 72, hell-raising Irish actor; of Hodgkin's disease; in London. He first won acclaim for his starring role as a rugby player in This Sporting Life (1963) and later starred in such films as Camelot and A Man Called Horse. A new generation knew him as the kindly wizard Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a role he reprises in next month's sequel...