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Come back with me 40 years to the rabid spring of 1970. President Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia, and campuses exploded. Kids who had never picked up a rock in their lives were occupying the classrooms they used to study in. When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. The fabric of the country seemed to be tearing; everything about the older generation was contaminated, corrupt. Asked in a Gallup poll if there was a generation gap, 74% of the young people of that era said...
...Slightly disappointed that there won't be any live specimens prancing about, we follow O'Rahilly down a long, tapered tunnel meant to shrink the visitor - psychologically, at least - to leprechaun size. The first room is a re-creation of the Giant's Causeway, the legendary hexagonal rock formation in County Antrim that in Irish folklore is prime hunting ground for leprechauns. Then we reach the museum's inner sanctum: the Rainbow Room, where the pristine arc of a rainbow has been fashioned out of velvety multicolored ropes. At the end of the rainbow, naturally, is where the leprechaun...
...also feel the timing of the museum opening is unfortunate. "This would have been envisaged right at the nexus of our self-belief," says Tony Tracy, a leprechaun expert and a film lecturer at the University of Galway. "But it's now arriving just as the country has hit rock bottom, and the Irish are concerned that we're once again living up to the stereotype of the leprechaun." (See pictures of Susan Boyle's road to fame...
...level of obnoxiousness attained by other houses (Mather we're looking at you), but Quincy residents are still proud of their home. House Masters Lee and Deb Gehrke are actively involved in student life and often can be seen dining with students, opening up their apartment for Rock Band, or destroying students at ping-pong. Stein clubs are not Quincy’s strongest point, but there are events such as Field Day, the newly implemented talent show, and Assassins every spring that bring the house together for carefree fun. The House e-mail list, which once regularly featured arguments...
...tapping those who will do the people's bidding. In this district, as in other regions where distrust of government runs deep, the congregation is growing. "People need to understand that whoever you vote for, these guys work for you," says Dion Richardson, a Lynchburg lawyer. "They're not rock stars. That's your employee. He's no different than the guy that cuts your grass." See pictures of members of the Tea Party movement...