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...spent in Minneapolis, about 250 miles to the south. His family moved often between the city's suburbs, and for a year they lived in a rented mobile home behind a pickle factory. "He seemed like a normal kid to me, except that he liked to be alone," says Patrick Tahahwah, a family member who lived two doors down from Weise when the boy was 7. In 1997, his father committed suicide. In 1999, his mother was in a car accident that led to major brain damage. Weise was then sent to live with his relatives on the Red Lake...
...That’s nice—Lone Ranger-style,” said Patrick G. Mauro ’07, blue paint slathered over his body...
Mark McGwire, abalding, svelter version of his former 70-home-run self, sauntered into a congressional hearing room on St. Patrick's Day wearing a light green tie. But there were no eyes, Irish or otherwise, smiling on him from the dais. Before members of the House Government Reform Committee and millions of fans watching on television, McGwire swore to tell nothing but the truth. Instead, he told nothing. After a moving opening statement in which he cried while ruing the deaths of young steroid users, the cameras clicked in wild anticipation. Was Big Mac ready to admit that...
...briefly questioning the women, authorities let them go in time to make their appointments the next two days in Washington--which included a meeting over coffee and shamrock cookies with Senators Edward Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Chris Dodd and a chat with Bush at the annual St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House. Bush listened as the women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fianc Bridgeen...
...Northern Ireland from Protestant gunmen. According to a recent poll, nearly half the supporters of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, want the group to disband. While the sisters basked in Washington goodwill, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams was snubbed by congressional allies and disinvited from the St. Patrick's Day party at the White House. Says Congressman Peter King, a longtime Sinn Fein supporter who met with the McCartneys: "They have a forum that no one has ever had before. [If] this case is followed all the way, and the guys who did it go to jail...