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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Alzheimer's Disease, Arts and Culture, Journalism, Celebrities
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Ireland proposes law on abortions to protect mothers' lives
LONDON -- Spurred by the preventable death of a pregnant woman, the Irish government unveiled a proposed law Wednesday spelling out when abortions can be performed to save the life of the mother, a controversial move in a country that still outlaws most...
Tags: Enda Kenny, Crime, Law and Justice, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Ireland Baldwin's open letter to her haters: 'It's bad energy!'
Ireland Baldwin says she's gotten over the whole "rude thoughtless little pig" voicemail her dad left her when she was 11, so why can't the rest of the world move past it too? And can we all also realize she is not her parents? So vented Alec Baldwin...
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Social Media
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Travel tips: Choose a basic color, and take plenty of notes
When packing, pick one basic color around which to create your "fashion palette" so you have plenty of mix-and-match outfits to choose from. Marlene Hassel Newport Beach Keep extensive notes on your trips. I have traveled a great deal and have...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel
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The art of becoming Edna O'Brien
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Edna O'Brien, who retells her provocative life in "Country Girl," represents a classic Irish case. A novelist whose promise found...
Tags: Authors, Book, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood
While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello, Multiple Sclerosis, Conservative Party (UK), Feminism
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IMPAC Dublin Award shortlist includes three Americans, Murakami
The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced its shortlist for 2013 on Tuesday, and a refreshingly diverse group it is, with five novels in translation -- from Japan, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, and France -- listed along with one British, one Irish...
Tags: French Literature, Dublin (Ireland), Iceland, Norway, Netherlands
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Extra, extra! 'Illegal immigrant' and other language changes
For U.S. reporters and editors, the term “illegal immigrant” looks to be going the way of the eight-track tape. The Associated Press is the news service that prompted Mark Twain to say, “There are only two forces that can carry light...
Tags: Mark Twain, Immigration, Migration, Illegal Immigrants, The Associated Press
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Cosmetic firm Avon to cut 400 jobs, exit Ireland
Struggling cosmetic firm Avon Products Inc. is cutting more than 400 jobs and leaving Ireland as it continues efforts to slim down amid profit plunges and other troubles. Avon said the job cuts, which account for about 1% of its global workforce, will...
Tags: Avon Products Incorporated, Corporate Officers
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Thatcher critics recall labor battles, Irish strife [Talkback]
LONDON -- It perhaps goes without saying that the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not prompt universal mourning. She could be a polarizing figure, nowhere more than in working-class communities of northern England, Scotland and Wales,...
Tags: Mining, Career and Workplace, National Government, Government, Explosions
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Gabriel Byrne conquers 'Vikings'
NEW YORK — If there's one thing Gabriel Byrne has learned in recent years, it's the importance of a comfortable chair. After a marathon 106 episodes as psychologist Paul Weston on the HBO drama "In Treatment," Byrne stars in "Vikings," History's...
Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Dublin (Ireland), Health and Medical Professionals, Golden Globe Awards, Entertainment Events
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Tribeca 2013: Will Forte runs and jumps (carefully) to a new phase
NEW YORK--Will Forte takes a breath and measures his words carefully, as Will Forte is generally wont to do, when asked how a man known for comedy suddenly finds himself in some finely wrought prestige dramas. “It wasn't a conscious decision to...
Tags: John Slattery, Movies, Will Forte, TriBeCa Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival
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