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headhunter questions about,
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humor, surreal sense of,
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integrity,
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Irish Christians vs. English skeptics,
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Lypton Village,
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nicknames,
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nineties and,
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pop songs,
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relying on, childhood,
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rock-star life and,
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Friendship and love,
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“Frock and Roll,”
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Frontières, Médecins Sans,
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Frustration among friends,
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“Fuck You, Jesse Helms” (Rundgren),
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Fun and mischief,
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Fundamentalists, America,
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Funeral wishes,
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G8 Summit (Gleneagles, Scotland),
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Gabriel, Peter,
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Gallagher, Rory,
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Galliano,
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Gambling,
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Gandhi, Mahatma,
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Garbo, Greta,
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Gavin Friday (Fionan Hanvey),
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Gaye, Marvin,
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Geldof, Bob,
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“Girl with the Beard, The,”
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See also
Bono

Glam-rock bands,
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“Glanost” period,
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Global Health Fund,
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Globalization and Africa,
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God, meeting,
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Good Friday Peace Agreement,
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Gorbachev, Mikhail,
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“Gospel of the poor,”
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Gospel tradition,
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“Grace” (U2),
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Graceland
(Simon),
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Grace of heroes,
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Grace vs. Karma,
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Graham, Billy,
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“Grand-Croix,” Legion of Honour,
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Grand National,
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Great vs. very good song,
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Green, Julian,
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Groupies,
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Grunge bands,
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Guggi (Derek Rowen),
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Gulliver's Travels
(Swift),
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Guns, Germs and Steel
(Diamond),
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Guns, pervasive in America,
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Hannett, Martin,
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Hanvey, Fionan (Gavin Friday),
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n,
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Happiness in midst of misery,
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Hard Day's Night, A
(Beatles),
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Haring, Keith,
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Harrison, George,
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Hatred, fighting,
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Heaven,
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Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC),
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Heavy metal,
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Helms, Jesse,
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Help!
(Beatles),
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“Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Kristofferson),
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Hendrix, Jimi,
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Hewson, Ali (Bono's wife).
See also
Bono

Africa and,
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birthday celebration,
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Black Wind, White Land,
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Bob Hewson (Bono's father) and,
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Ethiopia, refugee camp,
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falling in love with Bono,
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fashion show for Chernobyl victims,
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marriage to Bono,
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Mikhail Gorbachev's visit,
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rock-star life and,
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Hewson, Bob (Bono's father)

abuse, creativity from,
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Ali (Bono's wife) and,
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background of,
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Catholic faith,
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civil service career,
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combative relationship with Bono,
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death of Bono's mother,
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drawings of father by Bono,
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dreams, disappointment in,
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faith in God, loss of,
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family of,
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grandchildren and,
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grieving by Bono,
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iron bar under pillow,
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last words of,
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lessons learned from,
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marriage,
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money handling advice,
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obstacle course to get into house,
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opera, love of,
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personality of,
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questions, unanswered,
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risk, aversion to,
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sickness of,
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success of Bono and,
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wit and sarcasm of,
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“worrying about” Bono,
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Hewson, Paul.
See
Bono

High-rises in Dublin,
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Hilburn, Robert,
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HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries),
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Hip-hop,
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Holiday, Billie,
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Holy Grail, The
(Monty Python),
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Holy Roman Church,
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Houseman,
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See also
Bono

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
(U2),
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Humanitarian involvement,
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See also
Central America; Debt, AIDS, and Trade for Africa (DATA); Politics

Africa and,
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AIDS pandemic,
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America and Drop the Debt campaign,
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black music,
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Bobby Kennedy impact on,
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Bobby Shriver impact on,
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bureaucracy and,
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celebrity impact on,
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civil disobedience,
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civil servants,
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colonialism,
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commerce as future,
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Commission for Truth and Reconciliation,
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communism,
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corruption,
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crisis of strategy,
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Drop the Debt campaign,
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equality, journey of,
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Ethiopia,
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Eunice Shriver Kennedy impact on,
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evil,
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“glanost” period,
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Global Health Fund,
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globalization and Africa,
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happiness in midst of misery,
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hatred, fighting,
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idealism,
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indifference, on trial,
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Jubilee 2000,
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Linking Relief to Development,
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Millennium Challenge Account (MCA),
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New Economic Partnership and Africa's Development,
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postmodern vs. Middle Age civilizations,
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potential of people,
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power, working of,
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private philanthropy,
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Relief Ethiopian Society of Tigre (REST),
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“rock's conscience,”
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self-sufficiency as goal,
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U2 as preparation for,
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world, condition of,
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Hume, John,
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Humor

regaining,
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surreal sense of,
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Humperdinck, Engelbert,
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Hunger, celebrity myth,
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“Hurt” (Cash),
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Hutchence, Michael,
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Huyseman, Steinvic von,
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See also
Bono

Hynde, Chrissie,
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Idealism,
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Idealists, terrorists as,
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Ideas for music, origins of,
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Ideas worth more than people,
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“If I Could Live My Life Again” (Bono),
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Imagine
(Lennon),
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“In a Little While” (U2),
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“Inchicore.”
See
Edge

Indifference, on trial,
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“In Dreams” (Orbison),
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Innocence

end of, in childhood,
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rotting innocence,
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Insincerity for protection,
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“Inspired” music of U2,
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“Instant Karma” (Lennon),
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Instinct over intellect,
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Insurance salesman, Bono as,
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Integrity, friends,
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Interscope,
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Intimacy of songs,
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Into the Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2
Song (Stokes),
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Introspection,
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alcohol,
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bravery of youth,
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cynicism as humor,
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depression,
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drugs,
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faith, emanating from music,
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“first face,”
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love, fear of loss of life,
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Martello tower,
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memoir and,
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naiveté of youth,
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“pickled in themselves,”
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property developer, Bono as,
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rage, reality of,
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real estate investments,
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suicide,
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therapy, opinions about,
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Iovine, Jimmy,
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IPods,
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Iraq War,
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Ireland (southern) bombings,
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Irish Christians vs. English skeptics,
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Irish Hospice Foundation,
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Irish relationship with America,
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Irish vs. English people,
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Islamic world hatred of America,
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Island Records,
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“I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2),
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Ive, Jonathan,
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“I Want to Hold Your Hand” (Beatles),
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“I Will Follow” (U2),
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Jagger, Mick,
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Jaguar Smile, The
(Rushdie),
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“Jamjar.”
See
Larry (Larry Mullen)

Jay-Z,
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Jean, Wyclef,
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Jemba, Sister,
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“Jingle Balls, The” (Christmas concert in June),
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