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Which is why Notre Dame's "return to glory," as it is known on campus, is much more than a rebound in its football fortunes. The Fighting Irish are experiencing their best campaign since 1993--a turnaround engineered by a first-year coach who was Notre Dame's second choice for the job. Lapsed fans across the country are returning to the football fold and to their televisions. "Notre Dame attracts the casual fan to college football the way Michael Jordan does in basketball or the Triple Crown does in horse racing," says NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer. Notre Dame...
...throttling favored Florida State, 34-24, Saturday, Notre Dame took care of its doubters. Despite computer rankings that placed the Irish at No. 1, many media analysts thought the dream would end in Tallahassee, where the Seminoles had lost only four of their last 89 games. The mainframes took the Irish and the points...
When you make hats that look like Calder sculptures - skewed satellite dishes and demented spirals - you're clearly not aiming for the mass market. But over the past 10 years, Irish designer Philip Treacy has managed to build a business producing designs that adorn only a few heads - but turn others. Now he's embarking on the most commercial collection of his career, teaming up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to do a line of hats and bags that carry the artist's iconic images. "Warhol is a universal language," Treacy says. "We've gone for the most obvious choices...
...Italian” restaurant in Boston is found not in this corner of the city, but in a sleek space overlooking Boston Common. And it’s even stranger that the guiding light in the kitchen is not a classically trained chef from the Old World, but an Irish girl raised in the projects of Southie...
...DIED. RICHARD HARRIS, 72, hell-raising, Oscar-nominated Irish actor known to his generation for lead roles in This Sporting Life (1963) and Camelot (1967), and to younger audiences as Professor Albus Dumbledore, the wise old wizard in the Harry Potter series; in London. A notorious carousing buddy of Peter O'Toole and the late Richard Burton, Harris once described his face as "five miles of bad country road." He had just finished filming the second Harry Potter film...