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...play is hapless. But it is roared on in an atmosphere of intensity and passion unparalleled anywhere else in Asia. The enmity between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, the teams respectively of the city's West and East Bengali populations, mirrors the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow's Celtic versus Rangers. It stretches back before Indian independence and is embedded into the very fabric of Kolkata society. Prices for prawn and hilsa, the preferred seafood of each community, fluctuate depending on the results of the clubs' matches. An entire canon of Bengali films, plays and poems surrounds the eight-decade...
Last Friday, I felt Boston’s collective heart start beating again.For all the romance about the Red Sox and the hoopla surrounding Bill Belichick’s stealth with a video camera, Boston has bled Celtic green since Red Auerbach paced the sidelines decades ago.So when Celtics tickets went on sale last Friday, this old city’s heart—broken and embittered after 20 years of pure misery—started pumping the same green blood that fueled a 30-year obsession with arguably the NBA’s best franchise.And I, the hapless Midwesterner...
...born. "Today there are over 30 nationalities in that school alone," the mayor says. Portlaoise is hardly unique. In the past five years, hundreds of thousands of foreigners have come to Ireland, creating the country's fastest population increase on record. Immigrants have been drawn mostly by Ireland's Celtic Tiger boom through the '90s, strong employment and E.U. expansion that eased migration from Eastern Europe...
...This is my ninth New Hampshire primary, and I've seen this scene before. It is always heartbreaking, infuriating; it is always about health insurance. Biden handled the encounter with a lovely Celtic grace, but it was odd all the same-an emotional moment in a presidential quest that few people are taking seriously. Biden has been a U.S. Senator for 35 years. He has the strongest foreign policy credentials of any of the candidates in the field-in a year when such expertise should be paramount. And yet in the latest New Hampshire poll he is rocking along...
...This time the field was wide open: Ahern was contending with intense media scrutiny of his personal finances and criticism of his government's efforts to improve the poor state of the country's health service. There were even concerns about whether the Irish economic boom - the so-called Celtic Tiger - is on the wane, though the queues at the bookmakers suggest some voters still have money to burn...