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...many Catholics of my generation (I'm in my late 30s), I grew up not in a tightly knit urban Catholic enclave--most of my family emigrated to Britain from Ireland at the beginning of the last century--but in the booming suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. My Irish grandmother was barely literate. Her grandson has an Ivy League Ph.D. But while my peers left the church or scorned its structures, I stayed. Even as I discovered that I was homosexual, I couldn't leave. I knew somewhere deep in my soul that God was real, that his church...
...Kwangju. The striker was hungry for more. "If we carry on working as hard as that, we can achieve something great," he said. Indeed, hard running was the key to Spain's three-for-three performance. And yet, as his team prepared for its second-round game against the Irish on Sunday night, coach Camacho, mindful of the hubris that felled more fancied teams, was making no predictions. "There are no easy teams anymore...
...that of mainstream politicians. "Millenarian" terrorists are different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern Gang and Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military arm of the African National Congress. It is quite possible to support the aims of such groups while deploring their means. The classic example of the second category, of course, is Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...father, a Bangladeshi immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1971 and met Yasin’s mother, who is mostly of Irish-American descent, at UCLA. Yasin was born in Chicago, and has subsequently lived in Indonesia, suburban Chicago, Southern California, and finally Scituate, Mass., where he attended the small town’s public schools from the sixth grade onward...
...school self, he says how he played clarinet, and also wrestled for three years: “I wasn’t very good at it. Pretty bad, actually.” Explaining his “eclectic” musical tastes, he says he likes a lot of Irish and folk music, and Hindi music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American or Irish folk is “less processed. When you listen to folk music, it still has that raw edge?...