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...eyes of locals," said Dick Roach, as the parade trooped near Beijing's forbidden city. Parades in China's capital are a regular occurrence, of course, often massive affairs led by schoolchildren, soldiers, and other friends of the state. But the wide-eyed stares to which the Republic of Ireland's EU minister was referring were prompted by the city's first-ever Saint Patrick's Day parade. "People in Ireland are curious about people in China," said Roach, who helped lead the procession."And people in China are curious about people in Ireland...
...District government, the parade was small but significant. Doubling back twice in fifteen minutes over a two-block stretch near the Forbidden City, participation was limited to 200 people due to security concerns surrounding the nearby session of the National People's Congress. Roach walked at its head, alongside Ireland's ambassador to China, Declan Kelleher; a traditional bagpiper; and County-cork born Beijing local Shane O'Neill, whose leprechaun costume purchased at a Dublin shop came complete with a false belly. The trailing marchers included members of the Dublin Youth Orchestra, the local youth Irish dance troupe "The Celtic...
...even in the cards.”Link, for one, has a somewhat unorthodox background—she has been homeschooled since kindergarten and received perfect scores on both the SAT and the ACT. Link spends much of her time practicing harp and won an international title in Ireland last year.DEFINITELY LIKELYAs an academic and athletic recruiting tactic, likely letters seem to do their job. Fitzsimmons says that the yield is about the same as Harvard’s overall yield, which in recent years has been just shy of 80 percent. This figure is notable since likely letter recipients...
...different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There truly...
CONFLICT A decades-long clash between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland...