Word: irishman
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...coordinator of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq resigned in protest against continuing sanctions. "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," warned Irishman Denis Halliday. "It's as simple and terrifying as that.... Five thousand children are dying every month...
...appreciated. During activities that range from beach volleyball and Ping-Pong to yoga, one notices a wide array of physiques--the good, the bad, the ugly and the very ugly. But that's O.K. "The whole resort is geared to living completely in the nude without embarrassment," an Irishman explains to me. "The experience is much more sensual than sexual...
...have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology...
...Jerry Coleman, an Irishman from County Cork and a bartender at The Field Bar in Central Square orders, "Whatever you do, don't underindulge, especially since this year you have the weekend to recover from your shenanigans...
Maybe it was Oscar Wilde, the greatest Irishman since the blessed Brendan, who said it best: "One must have a heart of stone to read [Dickens' description of] the death of Little Nell without laughing." Much the same is true of the latest story to convulse the art world: the travails of the world's two biggest art-auction businesses, Sotheby's and Christie's, rivals that now stand accused by the U.S. Justice Department of colluding to rig the auction market by fixing their sales-commission rates. The art market, particularly in its auction form, has always been secretive...