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...Kendric Packer ’48, to propose a contest to Harvard alums to provide a fitting alternative. Simply replacing “sons” with “children” had a belittling connotation and afforded one two many syllables to keep pace with the old Irish tune on which “Fair Harvard” is based. So, after four years of discussions and vigorous debate in alumni journals, the greater Harvard community settled on the new opening verse: “Fair Harvard! We join in thy jubilee throng.” They...
DIED Six weeks after a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Irish journalist and author Nuala O'Faolain confessed that life, for her, had lost its beauty. "There is an absolute difference between knowing that you are likely to die--let's say, within the next year--and not knowing when you are going to die," she said during a tearful radio interview. Ever unflinching in her writing, O'Faolain explored the struggle of growing up poor in mid-20th century Ireland in her first memoir, Are You Somebody?, before penning the novel My Dream of You, also set in her homeland...
...persuaded to vote for him anyway. Elderly whites who might not have the most enlightened racial views might be swayed by warnings that McCain would privatize Social Security. Blue-collar whites might prefer Obama's economic policies. Surrogates like Jim Webb and Bob Casey might help with crucial Scots-Irish and Catholic voters...
...Instead of a makeover, Cowen is more likely to offer Ireland the kind of matter-of-fact - some would say blunt - talk that has made him the first Irish premier to admit smoking marijuana, back when he was a student in the late '70s. "Unlike President Clinton, I did inhale," he said...
...committed European, Cowen said his first important task is to ensure that Irish voters ratify the European Union's Lisbon treaty by referendum next month. The treaty, meant to streamline the Union's structures, has to be approved by all 27 E.U. member states to come into force; Ireland is currently the only one among them that will do it by popular rather than parliamentary vote. Polls suggest that the Irish will do so, and with Cowen now leading the campaign, opponents of the treaty may want to brace themselves for a bruising...