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...outdone, the Bush campaign issued the following reply from the governor of Texas: "The Prime Minister of Ireland is Bertie Ahern. And I didn't even have to look that up. So there...
There are almost 15 times more Irish descendents in America than there are actual Irish in Ireland. Of all the Irish immigrants currently stateside, about half of them live in the Boston Metropolitan Area. If this were 1776, one might imagine people yelling, "The Irish are coming--the Irish are coming!" as on the other side of town, opposite the seaside wharves, Boston Brahmins high atop their venerable hill guffaw, "Oh, too many of them buggers are running around our city...
...failed to notice on your Far Side Page-a-Day calendar, tomorrow is Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, the patron saint of Ireland who has been dead for about 1,500 years, is set to be memorialized and lionized once again...
...even with his deep Irish roots, Delaney approaches Saint Patrick's Day like a red-blooded American. "Sure it's a holiday, and in Ireland it's fairly religious at that. Here things definitely feel less religious and more exciting. We get all kinds of people to pack the bar on Saint Patrick's Day: Cambridge people, college students from MIT and Harvard, and even a visitor or two from Ireland," Delaney relates...
...pure marketplace with ideological fervor, Europeans continue to believe the state has a role to play in guiding markets. Exhibit A is the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard introduced in the European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even in St. Louis...