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Book review: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger

Published Date: 21 November 2009 How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'Toole IN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. I knew exactly the kind of Ireland I wanted to see emerge, and years...

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Sun-Times Media Announces Organization and Personnel Changes

Sun-Times Media today announced a series of organization and personnel changes that are designed to strategically position and maximize the strengths of the Sun-Times Media newspaper and digital network. John Barron has been...

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10. Keen for a trip to Iceland?

Big drop in currency value makes formerly expensive destination attractive. Since the global financial crisis, Malaysians are observed to be staying close to home, choosing mainly popular domestic and regional destinations with...

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Bullying should be called a pubic health problem: study

Bullying should be considered a public health problem and governments should adapt national strategies to deal with it, says the Canadian professor who led a study of bullying rates in 40 countries. The study's goal was to...

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Global warming: Intent to deceive

The files leaked Wednesday that are spreading around the world at the speed of Internet are genuine files from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia--and should they prove to be accurate, they paint a clear...

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Iceland Short Course National Championships: Women's National Record Book Torched

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 20. THE women's side of the Icelandic short course record book met the match in the first two days of swimming at the Iceland Short Course National Championships. Sigru...

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Our Lives "We lost the race" Official Video

The Icelandic band Our Lives contacted Sleepless In Reykjavik to edit a music video with footage from the amazing documentary " Guð Blessi Ísland " or " God Bless Iceland " directed by Helgi Felixson . " We lost the race ",...

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Drilling volcano will not make it erupt

After lying dormant for 4,000 years, one of Europe’s most powerful volcanoes, Campi Flegrei near Naples, is showing signs of life. Their aim is to pinpoint the source of mounting pressure that has caused the ground at the port...

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The Life of Leifs

The other day the mailman came bearing “Jón Leifs: Líf í tónum,” Árni Heimir Ingólfsson’s biography of Iceland’s iconic national composer. On one page, Ingólfsson reproduces the program of a concert that took place at the...

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Choir to visit Westport

WESTPORT The Pennsylvania Girlchoir will give a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in the Music & Arts series at Christ & Holy Trinity Church, Church Lane. The choir has performed with the Phila-delphia Orchestra and Opera...

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