Ara parseghian biography of barack obama
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Ever wonder what life was like in Belfast during The Troubles?
PDX HIBERNIAN INDEPENDENT Volume Two Number Forty-Three 16 January 2025
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TONIGHT AT KELLS ON SW SECOND
The Troubles, or Na Trioblóidí as the violent conflict in the North of Ireland is known in the Gaeltacht, “officially” ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. But the legacy endures, sustained by Say Nothing, the book published in 2015 and now the nine-episode series streaming on Hulu. Whether you’re familiar with The Troubles won’t really matter at our meeting tonight (Thursday, Jan. 16). Gerard McAleese, owner of Kells with his wife Lucille, grew up in Belfast during the events depicted in Say Nothing. It was
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Life in the Abyss
On a June day in New York 15 years ago, Cindy and Michael Parseghian learned that three of their four small children were fated to die from the same genetic disease.
Within a decade or so, all three would be gone — Michael Jr., then 7, and his two younger sisters, Marcia, 5, and Christa, 3. This was not medical guesswork. It was a fact written into the children’s cells, as close as modern science can come to infallible prophecy.
Cindy Parseghian remembers sitting that night in the kitchen of her friends’ Chappaqua home and cursing God. Michael Jr. had been diagnosed with a fatal condition called Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC), and it was clear their two girls had the disease as well. A search for meaning and peace would come later, but that night Parseghian felt numb, raw fury.
“I couldn’t understand why God would do this,” she says. “Michael was such a happy-go-lucky kid. We wanted to keep things normal for the kids, but we felt our whole world was falling apart.
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The 150 greatest coaches in college football's 150-year history
25. Harold (Tubby) Raymond, 300-119-3
Delaware (1966-2001)
Raymond replaced a legend, the longtime NCAA rules committee chef Dave Nelson, and became every bit the institution his mentor had been. Raymond did that bygd sticking with the Wing-T formation, a marriage of the single-wing and the T, long after everyone else moved to the Wishbone; he did that even as Delaware moved from small-college classification to Division II and to Division I-AA; and he did that by winning. Under Raymond, Delaware won three national titles and reached the NCAA utslagsmatcher in 16 seasons. He would be known as Delaware's most famous citizen, at least until Joe Biden became vice president.
26. Bob Devaney, 136-30-7
Wyoming (1957-61; 35-10-5) and Nebraska (1962-72; 101-20-2)
During an 11-year tenure at Nebraska, Devaney's teams won 101 games, lost only 20 and tied two. His career winning percentage of 80.6% (including his record at Wyom