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...that could still upset Ahern's apple tart: not least, cheap labor and the ingenuity of entrepreneurs in rising economic superpowers like China and India. Ahern claims Ireland's economy has attained "critical mass": around 1,000 multinational companies have substantial operations located there, and for now life is sweet, with gdp growth of 5% expected this year. But financial confidence is dipping amid worries about overstretched borrowers and an overheated housing market; the country's infrastructure is inadequate, its health system rickety. If Ireland's economic miracle falters, its affable Taoiseach might not find such a welcome...
...Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize. Swift finally won the Booker in 1996 for Last Orders, an equally powerful tale of four London friends heading for the seaside to spread the ashes of a pub mate. Both Swift's first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner(1980), in which a dying man reflects on his life, and his most recent one until now, The Light of Day(2003), about a disgraced former policeman trying to unravel a crime of passion, embody another of Swift's techniques: the action takes place in a single...
BABY FOOD TASTES SWEET...
This morass has fueled the stunning ascension of mixed martial arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Though derided as "human cockfighting," the UFC feeds the video-game bloodlust of young fans and has ripped market share from the sweet science. "If boxing were a stock," says veteran boxing historian and television commentator Bert Sugar, "I'd sell it short...
...government's judicial branch squared off in a soccer game against employees of the executive branch. It was the kind of scene you almost never see on the evening news: teenagers from the neighborhood playing freely while men at a nearby outdoor café talked politics over sheesha and sweet amber-colored Iraqi tea. Some played barefoot; those with shoes traded them off when they substituted out. The center forward for the executive branch, a close adviser to al-Maliki, was the only one wearing cleats...