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...hair [Sept. 10]. I'm 57 and started dyeing my hair in my mid-30s. When I turned 50, I decided that since I'd been a grandma from age 39, it was time I looked like one. Coloring your hair is a pain in the arse, as the Irish say. Your roots grow out in a week or two, and you have to touch them up or look like a skunk. Surely women have become liberated enough to do what they want. But if they decide to fake it, they should use a lighter dye to make it look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...with my Aunt Joan, they had a great, happy marriage for all their years. So there he is on his deathbed. He'd been in a coma a couple of days, and a priest has come in to give last rites. This was the first time, Irish that they are, that my aunt let a tear fall, trusting that his coma would make him unaware of it. Well, open come the eyes, and he sees. He catches her--she can't get away with it. And his last words were "What're ya crying about? You're gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature Boys | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...example, the professors situate the Israel lobby as just one lobby among a host of ethnic lobbies—something they did not do in the original article. The authors write that “ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans have [also] managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Tone Down ‘Lobby’ Critique | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...spots. They call him a miracle worker, but he says he's just a janitor, cleaning up other people's messes. But Clayton has no one to fix his own troubles: a heavy debt exacerbated by an addiction to gambling - and, lately, to losing. Born into a working-class Irish-American family that also weighs on him, Michael was a policeman before joining the firm. The question the film asks: Is he, at heart, a cop who collars the bad guys, or the lawyer who gets them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Stars' Do-Gooder Deeds | 9/9/2007 | See Source »

...that this one has dozens of private assistants who can arrange shark fishing for the adventurous. But if you just want to take a walk, that's fine too. They'll lend you a pair of Wellington boots to keep your feet dry and send the hotel's two Irish setters, Earl and Countess, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grander Hotel | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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