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It’s hard to find a true Irish pub these days. Most any amateur restaurateur can tack up a few Guinness signs, serve Harp on tap, put shepherd’s pie on the menu and declare themselves “authentically Irish.” But the experience, more often than not, feels more like Indiana than Ireland. As St. Patrick’s Day approached, we wondered if there were any truly authentic Irish experiences here in Philadelphia, a city steeped in Irish traditions. We had our doubts, but ended up pleasantly surprised. Here’s what we found: The Bards 2013 Walnut St.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Total undergraduate charges for tuition, fees, and room and board at the University of Pennsylvania will increase 5.4 percent for the 2005-2006 academic year, bringing the total cost of an undergraduate year to $41,766. The increase was approved today by the Board of Trustees.
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For the person who fears getting up on stage at all, performing without a script—with only your wits and your fellow actors to guide you—probably seems terrifying. For Stephanie Brown C’92, it only seems natural. A veteran of community theater and playwriting camps in her youth, Brown joined the campus improv comedy group, Without a Net, when she first arrived at Penn. After graduation, she toyed with the idea of pursuing the arts full-time and took jobs, first in her native Minneapolis and then in New York, but eventually landed back in Philly.
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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime’s “Final Solution” is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In “Crimes of the Holocaust,” Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada.
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—Daniel Malamud, Penn professor of biochemistry, on research that suggests saliva could be used instead of blood to test patients for diseases. (The Irish Times, Feb. 18, 2005) .
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The first annual Spiegel Symposium comes to Penn March 17 to 18, complete with lectures, films and panel discussions on art and culture, all in conjunction with the ongoing Barry Le Va exhibition at the ICA, 118 S. 36th St. The symposium, titled “Resistance,” will explore that theme—from protests to punk rock—in the culture and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Highlights include a lecture by Le Va, Bykert Gallery founder Klaus Kertess and a keynote address on March 18 by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
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PHILADELPHIA -- A weeklong "Celebration of Giving," March 14-18, will surround the March 17 dedication and renaming of Spruce College House as Riepe College House in honor of Trustees Chairman James Riepe and his wife Gail, a member of the Board of Overseers for Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine. The celebration recognizes the Riepes' $10 million pledge to support the College House Renovation Project and honors their longstanding dedication to strengthening student life at Penn.
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