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...Irish parents moved to London before he was born, and he visited Ireland only for summer holidays. His parents moved back a few years ago, leaving Martin and his brother to share the South London house where they grew up. McDonagh bridles gently at the notion that he's unfit to follow in the tradition of Sean O'Casey and John Millington Synge--that "with an accent like mine you can't write Irish plays. I'm a storyteller. I believe in making things...
What are mistakes in our era that parallel those of Sanger's? There is still an effort to distort her goal of giving women control over their bodies by attributing such quotes to Sanger as "More children from the fit, less from the unfit--that is the chief issue of birth control." Sanger didn't say those words; in fact, she condemned them as a eugenicist argument for "cradle competition." To her, poor mental development was largely the result of poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted...
...have their hands full managing the President, but there may well be greater tests. Under the Russian constitution, only one person can declare the President unfit to rule: the President himself. But what if Yeltsin becomes incapable of understanding that it is time to go? Yumashev and Dyachenko will be the first to see if this happens, and they will have to decide what to do. "I want to hope that the President's health will not lead to a political crisis," Berezovsky says diplomatically. But, he adds, the pair "are paying due attention to the situation, and will respond...
...take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball and force shots from 30 feet. My inner coach wants to bench all these Michael Jordan wannabes. But it's a lost cause...
...second offer to plead guilty in exchange for his life. But Reno's men turned down the deal because it left a remote chance Kaczynski could someday go free. The court is still considering the issue of Kaczynski's competency, and if the Unabomber suspect were found mentally unfit, any plea bargain deal would go out of the window. That would not automatically give Kaczynski a get-out-of-jail-free card, but the possibility exists...