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 “Since
Kevin died, Amy has had to deal with not only the grief of losing her
husband and her best friend, but also with the difficulties of financially
coping with life without him. . . she’s getting $784 from the Pentagon
and $1,033 from Veterans Affairs [per month]. Moreover, if Amy, who is
41 years old, remarried before the age of 55, she gets nothing.”
— Dan Shea writing in The New York Times on the financial difficulties
facing military spouses, including his sister-ion-law, a widow with two
children.
“The presentation was fabulous, with video of Judy Garland both
on film and on stage. It was a star-studded event that I was thrilled
to be a part of.”
— Artist Tim O’Brien on the unveiling of the new Judy Garland
stamp on June 10 at Carnegie Hall. Garland is the 12th honoree in the
U.S. Post Office’s Legends of Hollywood series and O’Brien’s
third stamp. Earlier in the year he did Hattie McDaniel. O’Brien,
whose illustrations have graced many Time magazine covers, is a Top 100
honoree.
“It’s geared toward learning the language rather than passing
the tests. They make it a lot of fun.”
— Meghan Donaldson, 22, a senior at Notre Dame with no Irish roots,
explains to The New York Times why she decided to study Gaelic this semester.
“I didn’t know how miserable I was until I started to be
feeling better.”
— Representative Patrick Kennedy on the time he spent at the Mayo
Clinic for drug dependency. – The New York Times
“The kind of Ireland the heroes of the Rising aspired to was based
on an inclusivity that, famously, would ‘cherish all the children
of the nation equally – oblivious of the differences which have
divided a minority from the majority in the past.’ That culture
of inclusion is manifestly a strong contemporary impulse working its way
today through relationships with the North, with unionists, with the newcomers
to our shores, with our marginalized, and with our own increasing diversity.”
— President Mary McAleese speaking at University College Cork on
the 1916 Rising. |
