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...GYMNASTICS Melanie Banville, Cornwall, Ont. Grant Golding, Calgary Ken Ikeda, Abbotsford, B.C. Alexander Jeltkov, Montreal David Kikuchi, Fall River, N.S. Gael Mackie, Langley, B.C. Am?lie Plante, Joliette, Que. Heather Purnell, Metcalfe, Ont. Kate Richardson, Coquitlam, B.C. Kyle Shewfelt, Calgary Kylie Stone, Calgary Adam Wong, Calgary...
...Springsteen, I have renewed resolve. Although my loss could never compare with that of the victims and survivors of Sept. 11, I am sure The Rising will be part of their healing as it will be of mine. God bless Springsteen--craftsman, Renaissance man, healer, saint. STEVE SPARROW Abbotsford...
...seat 32 guests for dinner. Yes, I watch Stewart's programs and read her magazine occasionally; then I go to K Mart and try to find a cheap alternative to the ideas she has given me. Or I just sit there and think, yeah, maybe someday. ANGELIKA DAWSON Abbotsford...
...thought nothing of his fame as a writer compared with his place as . . . clansman of Buccleuch." He tossed off such novels as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy without revising or even rereading, dictating at times while racked by pain from gallstones and stomach cramps. He was extravagant: his "hut" at Abbotsford became a castle, where he spent immense sums buying up land, planting trees (3,000 laburnums, 3,000 Scotch elms, 100,000 birches) and entertaining noblemen, statesmen, lairds and literary lights...
Dumas wrote day and night, working with and without collaborators, laughing as the wonderful pages of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before...