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Editorial
THE IRRESISTIBLE ILLUSION by Rory
Stewart
The Taliban can't be beat. Why is
Obama fighting George Bush's war?
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2. |
Essay
DAVID SOLWAY: TALKING BACK TO THE
TALKBACKERS
"Cognitive paralysis is a staple
human failing and none of us is immune to it."
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3. |
Six
Degrees of Jazz
PATRICIA BARBER reviewed by Neila
Mezynski
Her original material is beguiling
and Cole Porter is smiling.
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Word
Usage
OH CANADA, WE STAND ON CAR AND FREEZE
by Howard Richler
When what we hear isn’t clear,
we find it in the mind.
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Environment
POISONOUS BROWN CLOUD by Sunny Lewis
It's three miles thick, covers much
of Asia, and is home grown. The clock is ticking ticking ticking.
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6. |
Essay
THE ART OF FASTING by Yahia Lababidi
Explores the relationship between
going without and going far.
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7. |
Fibre Optics Unbound
POCKET REVOLUTION by Josh Freed
Small screens -- and our incredibly
shrinking world. The next addiction is here.
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8. |
Essay
BEING AND DISCONNECTEDNESS by Donald
Dewey
"Let's get crossed off everybody's
list." And then what?
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9. |
Film
Review
COLE reviewed by Robert J. Lewis
Small-town life in Canada gets a
sympathetic telling in Carl Bessai's racially edgy drama.
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10. |
Essay
MAKING A QUILT OUT OF COLLECTIVE
GUILT by Robert J. Lewis
Do you take pride in your national
sports team but refuse to take responsibility for your nation's
crimes?
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11. |
Film
Review
BY THE WILL OF GENGHIS KHAN reviewed
by Sylvain Richard
A character study, an epic, and
battle scenes -- set in the gorgeous Steppes -- to die for.
Director Andrei Borisov never bores.
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12. |
Monks
on the Run
MARATHON MONKS by James Davis
Is there Nirvana at the end of the
1000-day marathon? Good running shoes, not a must.
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13. |
Confessional
ONLY THE LONELY by Francis DiClemente
Explodes the myth of bachelor's
paradise lost.
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14. |
Art
Appreciation
THE OLIVE WOOD WONDERS OF RENA MEREN
by Lydia Schrufer
The mysteries of wood laid bare
in sculpture for the ages.
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