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...lists Al Pacino, for example, as being related to Matt Damon and George Clooney.) To improve accuracy, the site lets users vote on all the information it has teased out in tags, such as "male", "Italian-American", "actor" and so on. If it turns out that you are Irish-American, and not Italian-American, for example, your friends (and even strangers) can weigh in and have the offending tag removed. And while anyone can "claim" their existing profile and make corrections, the Spock community gets the final vote on whether the information and links you provide are accurate...
Father, I attend Mass for reasons familiar to any good Roman Catholic: habit and guilt. Never did a Sunday go by in my youth without an hour slouched on a wooden pew. You see, my father was once one of you. Like many Irish-American boys of his generation, he joined the seminary as a teen and wore the collar until his mid-30s. On his mission in Japan, he met a lovely young Buddhist whom he successfully converted. After he wrote to the Vatican and renounced his priesthood, she in turn successfully converted him into a husband...
...They did more than stare. Over the next few years Chai, her younger brother, their Chinese father and Irish-American mother were insulted, harassed and ostracized. Their house was shot at from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer...
...member of Harvard Kung Fu, who prepared a vegetarian menu including baby corn and tofu in a mango sauce. “We’ve been cooking since noon.” While many groups chose to outsource their cooking, the members of the Irish-American Society rolled up their own sleeves and took to the kitchens of Eliot dining hall. From their hearty raisin-studded soda bread to their traditional blackberry potato pancakes dusted with powdered sugar, the dishes exuded the comfort of fireside warmth. Beef patties at the Harvard Caribbean Club and cannoli at the Harvard Italian...
...Following the afternoon show was an international food festival in the Science Center, which included delicacies like the Hawai’i Club’s butter mochi and the Irish-American Society’s homemade apple cake...