Dried pasta: it should be so easy to cook and yet, somehow, that delicious al dente texture the Italian restaurants so effortlessly perfect oftem seems to elude even the biggest pasta fans. Leave the pan boiling for 30 seconds two long or too…
Amanda Gorman 'screamed and danced her head off' when she found out she had been chosen to read one of her poems at Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony. At the age of 22, the Los Angeles-born writer and performer is the youngest poet to perform at a…
We're often surrounded by opinions lamenting a focus on tactics over strategy – here's one such example from last year (although it's debatable the extent to which either Joe Biden's tactics or strategy influenced the US election result…
The New York Times
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Alexandra Alter
– Jan 19, 2:00 AM
About two weeks ago, the poet Amanda Gorman was struggling to finish a new work titled “The Hill We Climb.” She was feeling exhausted, and she worried she wasn't up to the monumental task she faced: composing a poem about national…
The Irish Times
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Pat Leahy Political Editor
– Nov 13, 2020
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar posted the new GP contract to head of rival doctor's group Maitiú Ó Tuathail in 2019 when then minister for health Simon Harris was trying to obtain a copy, official records show. Mr Harris's officials had…
