After Mr. Rodman's first North Korea trip, Paddy Power sent Mr. Rodman to Vatican City to urge people to place their bets on a new pope.
I've been transported by the New York State Department of Corrections (DOC) between 12 of them, and I've been in about as many paddy wagons, though the trips were generally much shorter and far less violent than Gray's.
But like most of Mr. Clinton's trip here, the somber trek into the paddies was a reminder that piecing together America's relations with Vietnam is as slow and agonizing a process as looking for the remnants of Colonel Evert's fighter.
I and all of my fellow soldiers were one set of orders and a plane trip away from being in those rice paddies.
His latest target is the launch of a new Irish networking group called TechLudd, which was inspired by a recent trip to Silicon Valley by some Irish startups, an initiative dubbed Paddy's Valley.
One month before that, Mr. Clinton took a five-day tour of Asia, including a historic trip to Vietnam, where he stood on the edge of a rice paddy and watched, his eyes welled up with tears, as laborers sifted through dirt to search for the remains of an American serviceman.
On a trip through the Sukau Rainforest in Malaysia, where the landscape features jungles, paddy fields and rivers, tourists will learn about local turtle conservation efforts and stay at the 20-room Sukau Rainforest eco-lodge where the water is heated with solar power and "passes" have been built into the land to accommodate elephant migration in the area.
The China he is preparing to rule is becoming cynical and anxious as growth slows and social and political stresses mount.Mr Xi's trips to Xiajiang, a long and tortuous journey past tea plantations and paddy fields in a backward pocket of the booming coastal province, were part of his prolonged apprenticeship for China's most powerful posts.
The Paddy Power Dennis Rodman Invitational in Pyongyang – named after the Irish betting company that sponsored Rodman's recent trip to North Korea – will bring former NBA players to play against the country's national team.
DerChef The highlight of my trip to Bali was staying in Ubud, then getting out of the town to experience the rainforest, rice paddies and fascinating coffee plantations by bike.
Shop 9, 90-95 The Crescent, 02 9674 3687 Making a trip to Homebush West on the weekend gives you a perfect mix of lunch and cheap fruit and vegetable shopping at Paddy's Market.
