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Malachy McCourt, author of 
, enlightens James Michael Tyler about the Emerald Isle's pubs and churches, U2's Bono, and the magic of Irish song.
, that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.
, talks about the new German Pope, Vatican insiders, and upheaval in the Catholic Church. 
laid out for all to see the indiscretions and subsequent political implosion of John Edwards, the former aide/human shield who originally claimed paternity for Edwards' illegitimate child has announced his own tell-all account of the affair, 
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. He said that the economy has not recovered from the recession. "They claim there's a recovery but the recovery ought to be measured by the people working. True unemployment is now 16%, and the people who lost money have not regained the money. The people who lost houses have not gotten their houses back. There is no recovery," said Paul. ...
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, like the end of days, is just a matter of time. It could be avian influenza, which he calls only one of a "number of bullets that could plausibly strike the modern food system. A sharp spike in the price of oil, a series of extreme weather events, an outbreak of some new plant disease, the depletion of some critical aquifer, all would send massive and potentially disrupting shock waves through a system that, despite advances in areas such as bio-security, is losing more and more of its overall flexibility and resilience by the week."
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" concludes that owners and builders of the ocean liner Titanic made decisions that saved them huge amounts of money and sacrificed more than 1,500 lives. ...
" By Julian Barnes (244 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.)
," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure from it, a good deal of pleasure. Of course confirmed city-dwellers, who want no more of nature than a Sunday stroll in the park, will find it a bore. But to armchair naturalists everywhere, and certainly to those who live in the country and seek a good part of their sense of reality in the natural world, her book offers much that is delightful, percipient, and informative. ...
" (Hardcover: 400 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown and Company) ...
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