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...Oscars, the fresh-faced stars of the Irish movie Once seemed as if they had just rolled into Hollywood straight from busking on a Dublin street-corner. Hardly...
...nice impromptu moment, Stewart brought Czech actress-composer Marketa Irglova back to give the acceptance speech she didn't get to deliver for best song, from the weeny Irish film Once. It wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...
...danger is both real and perceived, and the view of Iraq by any veteran aid worker is colored by the brutal 2004 kidnapping and beheading of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born CARE international aid worker who had been living in Iraq since...
After two months of searching, an announcement made last week named Jamie Clark as the new Virginia and James Welch head coach for the Harvard’s men’s soccer team. Clark comes to the Crimson after spending two years as assistant coach of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and will look to build on the achievements of previous coach, John Kerr, who left Harvard in December to take a head coaching position at his alma mater, Duke University. “We were all really impressed that everywhere he went, he was successful...
...with mixed results, throughout her first term. "She thrives on confrontation," said a Cabinet colleague. She wrestled with the European Community over British contributions to the B.C. treasury and succeeded in winning sizable rebates. She lambasted the Soviet Union with cold war invective. She coldly withstood the threats of Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, even when ten of them died of starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain it was causing many Britons, she forced out a number of these "wets...