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...Robinson has spent her career setting precedents. At 25, she was a member of the Irish Senate and the youngest-ever law professor at Trinity College Dublin. By the time she was 46 she had become Ireland's first female president. She is only the second occupant of the high commissioner post, but her tireless campaigning - she has visited more than 60 countries - and unyielding outspokenness have transformed the office into an international bully pulpit. Her willingness to, as she puts it, "criticize those who are your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel...
...into swill fed to pigs at a local fattening facility. Before the first symptoms appeared to warn of the danger, the virus was spreading to farms all across the country as animals were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned up in Northern Ireland and jumped the English Channel to a farm in western France. But even before French veterinarians confirmed cases in six cows last week, authorities from Germany to Portugal were ordering the slaughter of tens of thousands of animals that might have been exposed. Across Europe, traffic backed up for inspection...
...sometimes I log on via AOL through my telephone line, a route I especially recommend during the dinner hour. You can eat along with, say, the moody jazz and classical music of The Blue of the Night, which airs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dublin time on Ireland's Lyric FM, and thwart pesky telemarketers at the same time. Talk about the wonders of world music...
...Ireland's Natural Resources Minister, Hugh Byrne, called Britain "the leper of Europe" for not getting a hold on the virus before it spread abroad. And a farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...whistle-stops in the life of the privileged college student, and I do not begrudge them, for myself or others. But it seems sad, really, that many folks will graduate from Harvard having been up the Washington Monument but not the one on Bunker Hill, having been to Ireland but not South Boston, the home of Kafka but not of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, or Longfellow...