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Moynihan is the first non-economist to give the commencement speech since former Irish president Mary Robinson’s 1998 address. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin ’60 were the last three speakers selected...
...struggling to find the Spanish word for pedophilia. First, he ad libs, referring in Spanish to the "crimes of the priests." Then, seeing the rows of blank faces, he resorts to saying pedophilia with a Spanish accent--which turns out to be right. A white Roman Catholic priest of Irish descent ministering to a mostly Hispanic congregation, Shanahan, along with his flock, is the picture of the Roman Catholic Church's future in the U.S. For a year and a half, he has been the only full-time pastor for the 600 families, most of them Puerto Rican...
...setbacks have not deterred her. On a recent blustery night, she and five of her closest girlfriends, dressed in unseasonable short sleeves, downed cocktails and took shots of "buttery nipples," a syrupy blend of butterscotch schnapps and Baileys Irish Cream. It was a Tuesday during midterm exams, but they closed down the bar anyway. "You don't want to be that dumb girly girl who looks wasted and can't hold her liquor. I know it's juvenile, but I've had boys comment how impressed they are at the amount of alcohol I've consumed," Diebold explains...
...News faceliftee Greta Van Susteren will be writing a book for Crown. Her co-writer is former TIME correspondent Elaine Lafferty, now a reporter for the Irish Times...
...church was unwilling to act, the state has sometimes stepped in. Since September 2000 people who had attended Ireland's 52 Industrial Schools until they were closed down in the 1970s have been giving evidence of the abuse they suffered to committees of enquiry set up by the Irish government. Some 3,000 men and women have come forward with stories of physical and sexual abuse against members of the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Mercy and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Jacinta Madden, a lawyer working for a Dublin-based firm representing over 700 claimants, says that "the church...