Word: irelander
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...Booker Prize and its purse of $75,000 for Life of Pi, a fable about a young boy shipwrecked for a year with a Bengal tiger; in London. Organizers recently suggested that American writers might be nominated for the award as soon as 2004; currently, only writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth are eligible...
...year-old traditions of priestly authority and institutional survival with modern notions of accountability. Last week, a committee of American and Vatican bishops was redrafting the American bishops' proposed "zero tolerance" policy toward sexual abuse by priests that the Vatican had rejected as too harsh. But in Ireland, where the church's power has for centuries been pervasive, the damage caused by pedophile priests has been particularly corrosive. Collins' case shows why. In 1996, when McGennis was still serving as a parish priest a year after her first complaint, she went to her local bishop to have him removed...
...University of Arizona at Tucson. He enjoys art history, theater, ballet and travel. He has an extensive library in his home--and 17 motorcycles outside it. Falco's journeys have taken him as far as the Pyrenees Mountains, bordering Spain and France, and the back roads of western Ireland. "Riding a bike gives me a young feeling, like I'm 15 again," Falco says. "It's a great way to see the world and awaken the senses...
Pakenham's obsession dates to his childhood in Oxford, where he kept watch for German parachutists during World War II from a perch in his favorite horse chestnut. But he didn't take trees seriously until 1961, when he inherited an estate--Tullynally Castle in Ireland--that encompasses several hundred acres of stately 200-year-old oaks and beeches. (Pakenham could have been the eighth Earl of Longford, but he doesn't use the title. His father was a famous politician; his mother is the biographer Elizabeth Longford; the writer Antonia Fraser is his sister...
...most of them are reporters). He boards an open-topped double-decker bus full of like-minded activists from Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Slovenia - a sign on the side calls it the speak-up-for-small-nations democracy tour. Until Saturday's vote, the tour will be zooming around Ireland - which happens to be the biggest net beneficiary of E.U. subsidies - trying to convince its voters to make the E.U. harder for other small nations to join. Different place, same cold feet: it's evening in Skaradki, a tiny village near Lodz in the Polish heartland. The primary school...