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Friedman, who is remembered as an optimist by his friends, did not talk much about Mikey’s Way or his own battle with cancer during his time at Harvard. Emily S. Shire ’11, a friend of Friedman’s and an inactive Crimson magazine editor, said that she did not know about his cancer until nearly the end of their freshman year...
...Mikey was just that calm, oh-so wonderful person. He played such an important role in the way our group works,” Shire said. “I’m completely unsurprised that he has touched so many lives...
...Sydney in the 1970s, was bemused. It would have been "absolutely unthinkable" for him, or any of his friends, he said, to have gone out to a pub wearing a flag or chanting nationalist slogans as young men. I knew what he meant. I grew up in Sutherland Shire, in Sydney's south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment...
...lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival of new companies, and a greater emphasis on trade, should help Ireland to average growth of around 3.5% over the next decade, according to ESRI's Fitz Gerald, outstripping most of Europe...
...like, if at all. I cannot understand why those of us who have the means are so reluctant to return to the places we are from. There really is no place quite like home. After all, for Frodo, none of the wonders of Middle Earth could compare to the Shire. All Odysseus wanted was to get back to Ithaca. And who could forget the click of Dorothy’s red shoes? Marina S. Magloire ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Kirkland House...