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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day


Person of the decade

And it is Pope Benedict XVI. Now 82, he's entering the decisive phase of his Papacy and the stakes could not be higher. The issues facing humanity at the end of this decade are existential and it's...

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Company of the decade

An early-December tweet by Clay Shirky summed it all up in 140 characters exactly.... (...)

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App of the decade

You know that something has changed when the abbreviation of a word becomes the accepted form of that word. People do not speak of the "application"; they talk about the "app". Apple developed a new...

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Day of the decade

"Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work." The 9/11 Commission Report opens, unusually...

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Decade out...

This image says it all: The horror, the barbarity, the brutality, the savagery, the cruelty and the terror we have been exposed to in the name of God during this decade. Here, members of Hizbul Islam...

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Snow White In Appalachia

The album of the year? Well, when it comes to originality, nothing held a candle to Manafon by David Sylvian. One of its most captivating tracks is Snow White In Appalachia: "And there's snow on the...

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Family day of rest

"Rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) is one of the most human depictions of the Holy Family ever created. Instead of portraying a standard Nativity scene with shepherds...

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The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009

Here's a seasonal verse by the new British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, commissioned exclusively for Radio Times. Rainy Day does not agree with everything expressed in this work, but Duffy is an...

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A stocking filler for the little literate ones

Christmas looming and you still haven't found the ideal present for little literate Johnny or Jane? How about a book of fairy tales? They always go down a treat, especially when read late at night by...

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The villains and monsters of Copenhagen

Who invited 45,000 "environmentalists" to Copenhagen for a fortnight? How could they all afford to travel to Denmark? Did anyone do their jobs when they were away? What was the size of their...

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