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Periscope for January 2012
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 05:36 PM
Liam Neeson has the full right to embrace Islam if he wants -- His wife's death has led to a search for life's meaning
Liam Neeson's public embrace of Islam has certainly landed him in the middle of a steaming controversy.
The Irish Hollywood star told the London Sun that he was considering adopting the religion because of his experiences in Istanbul while filming where he found the calls to prayer and beauty of its historic mosques very moving.
I know Liam Neeson somewhat as we serve on the American Irish Historical Society board together and we often meet in Irish circles in New York.
Boston keeps its Irish roots - community’s presence felt through out Massachusetts
BOSTON – 38% of the state of Massachusetts is of Irish extraction, and every fourth face or so you see here reflects that ancestry.
BOSTON – 38% of the state of Massachusetts is of Irish extraction, and every fourth face or so you see here reflects that ancestry.
Meryl Streep gives amazing performance as Margaret Thatcher -- Iron Lady, warts and all, exposed in new biopic
If Streep doesn't win the Oscar for this performance there is no justice in Hollywood.
She portrays the demented Thatcher who sees her dead husband and carries out imaginary conversations with him.
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