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...will likely be filled with what can be delicately termed “crap.” As Alex Tew, the creator of the One Million Dollar Homepage, said, he has had many stupid ideas. He put them all out there, and one just happened to become popular. Matt Haughey, the creator of Metafilter, said that “If [there’s] a problem, someone’s gonna want to solve it.” Ben Huh, the owner of “icanhascheezburger.com,” a propagator of the LOLcatz phenomenon, presented a hopeful vision...
...pursuing a gilded lifestyle. A man of simple tastes, Ahern says his biggest indulgence is "a ticket to some good football match." Yet he is anything but a simple man. Quick on his feet and with a speedy grasp of policy, he's also a consummate politician. Charles Haughey, a discredited forerunner in the Taoiseach's office, described Ahern admiringly as "the most cunning, the most devious, the best of them all." Even so, voters seem to trust him. Frank Luntz, the U.S. pollster who has recently been taking the country's temperature for Ireland's national broadcaster rte, says...
...DIED. Charles Haughey, 80, charismatic and durable Irish politician who served three terms as Ireland's Taoiseach, or Prime Minister, between 1979 and 1992; in Dublin. The son of an Irish Republican Army officer, Haughey's lengthy political career was marred by corruption allegations, including his trial in 1970 on charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal...
...play has reached London, and Stafford-Clark is expecting a quite different reaction. "The play's reception in Dublin wasn't a complete surprise," Stafford-Clark says. "But in London, where Haughey is less well-known, it is likely to be seen more in the light of a domestic drama...
...play is set in a handsomely furnished study, where the aging Johnny Silvester paces and faces his demons. He is plagued by the press, his bitter wife and his mentally disturbed son - even the imagined ghost of the friend he betrayed. Barry has denied that Silvester is specifically Haughey. However, there are some obvious parallels - both are ex-Irish Prime Ministers, both have had affairs with journalists, and both are accused of dubious financial dealings. At one point Silvester even growls, "I have done the state some service," the Shakespearean quote famously employed by Haughey...